I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Fay Weldon

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Jane Austen

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

Amit Ray

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

George Bernard Shaw

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Cole Porter

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Brett Ratner

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

Bjorn Lomborg

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Alexander Alekhine

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Peter McWilliams

The formula for success is Cosmic Ordering, the formula for failure is worry.

Stephen Richards