For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

Fanny Burney

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Victor Frankl

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

John Hicks

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

C.S. Lewis

Freedom is control in your own life.

Willie Nelson

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Tracey Ullman

In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from the bloodsuckers. It's about making them again.

Stephen King

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Blake

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Alice Walker

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.

Ogwo David Emenike

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Thomas Keller

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Cecelia Ahern