I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

Cat Power

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Jimmy Buffett

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Omar N. Bradley

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.

Yogi Berra

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Neal Shusterman

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

Joseph Smith, Jr.

There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Henry David Thoreau

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley