Free I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Maya Angelou - My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

DeAnna Anderson — “If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.”

Parker Conrad - Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.

Friedrich Nietzsche - ”There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Anne Lamott - Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Logic - I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Wilfred Peterson - Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new gri

Robert Benchley - It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous.

James Hetfield - I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Sian Clifford - Every single one of my girlfriends who's had a big breakup has gone and done some kind of makeover, including myself.

Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America.

Harriet Tubman - I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Nikki Schiefelbein - It's hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you're lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman - March 15th is the most important day of the year. It's my birthday.

Kyrie Irving - One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Bob Ehrlich - Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Oscar Wilde- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Spike Milligan - As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

Stephen Graham Jones-Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

Kay Redfield Jamison - In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Christopher Hitchens - I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Cornelius Vanderbilt - If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.