I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Pat Boone

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Madame de Stael

When it's breezy, hit it easy.

Davis Love, Jr.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Nathaniel Branden

Sometimes the love you'll feel after you've been hurt is stronger than ever.

Steve Maraboli

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

Gary Locke

The question isn't 'who is going to let me'; it's 'who is going to stop me'.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Martha Plimpton

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Kenny G

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

William Congreve

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Gore Vidal