I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.

John Green

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

David Bohm

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Nicholas Sparks

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Jean Rostand

Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

LaToya London

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Timothy Radcliffe

How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my trothfor our love is whole;her breath is my wine,her scent is my soul.

Roman Payne

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

Michael Patrick King

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Jack McDevitt