To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Pat Riley

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

John Green

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

Erykah Badu

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Emily Watson

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

Princess of Wales Diana

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything you go through grows you.

Robert Tew

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner

Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.

Andrew Sturm

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Carter Glass

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru