Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Necessity unites.

Proverb

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

Demi Moore

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Vincent D'Onofrio

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Diane Ackerman

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Henrik Ibsen

Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Mark Twain

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Drew Carey

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

U.S. vs Cruikshan

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

David Letterman