I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

Ronald Reagan

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Khaled Hosseini

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

Hunter Parrish

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

William Shenstone

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

Emilio Estevez

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Jeffrey Kluger

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Imran Khan

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

James Anthony Froude

The average person thinks he isn't.

Larry Lorenzoni

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril

Alfred Loisy

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Henry Miller