In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

George W. Bush

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Bernard Berenson

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Zig Ziglar

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

Aaron Neville

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Michael Phelps

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Yiddish Proverb

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

Lauren Conrad

The result of walking round Tate Modern is not an experience of the marvel of creative profundity which gives meaning to life, but more akin to the detritus of a dryly analytical bureaucrat reverting to an infantile stage during an extended breakdown.

Charles Thomson

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Franz Kafka