Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Maria Sharapova

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Chris Crutcher

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Haruki Murakami

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

Meg Cabot

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

John H. Johnson

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.

Ernest Hemingway

If words are the truth, what is living for?

Marty Rubin

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

Rand Paul

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Tony Campolo

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Wendy Mass