He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Yves Saint Laurent

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Judy Garland

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Mary Pipher

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Helen Rowland

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Thomas Jefferson

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Jet Li

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

V. S. Pritchett