I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

Catherynne M. Valente

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Dwight D Eisenhower

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Herman Cain

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

He does not weep who does not see.

Victor Hugo

Give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Stephen King

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

James Broughton

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Van Morrison