As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

Hedy Lamarr

May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise hold more peace.

Anon.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Mao Zedong

I'm not saying it's wrong to plan for the future. I'm warning not to make today a victim of those plans.

Steve Maraboli

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Source Unknown

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Courtney Love

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Ernest Renan

The good Socialist works with religious zeal for the redemption of mankind from the evils of poverty and ignorance.... He is conscious of the beauty of the ideal... he works on... for the deliverance of the human spirit from the enslavement of material things.

Herbert Morrison

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Meg Greenfield

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Voltaire

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Henry David Thoreau