I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Dick Gregory

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Dean Koontz

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Javier Bardem

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Leo Tolstoy

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

Flea

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

Donald Pleasence

Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci

John Keats

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

Rick Wakeman

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

General Douglas MacArthur

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Alice Hoffman