Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

Chris Brown

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Epictetus

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

Curt Schilling

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Thomas H. Raddal

We hate some persons because we do not know them, and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Haruki Murakami

The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.

Alexander Maclaren

Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.

Marcel Proust

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Emma Goldman

Denial and affirmation are games which people play.There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

Idries Shah