Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Jim Harrison

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann von Goethe

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.

Jared Padalecki

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Josh Billings

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

Mike Johanns

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

The working life of the businessman has the psychology of a hundred-yards race, but as the race upon which he is engaged is one whose only goal is the grave, the concentration, which is appropriate enough for a hundred yards, becomes in the end somewhat excessive.

Bertrand Russell

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Michelle Bachelet