I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Major Owens

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

Hu Jintao

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Deborah Norville

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Werner Herzog

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Halle Berry

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Jillian Michaels

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

Elijah Wood

The progress of science, of good science, depends on novel ideas and on intellectual freedom: science has very often been advanced by outsiders (remember that Bohr and Einstein regarded themselves as outsiders).

Paul Karl Feyerabend

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Bronowski

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

Bernadette Peters