Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Ben Elton

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Steve Jobs

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Robert Herrick

Never complain and never explain.

Benjamin Disraeli

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries

William Shakespeare

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

English Proverb

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

Mark Hoppus

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Dusty Baker

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Napoleon Hill

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Ivan Illich

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

Maria Sharapova