We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

Brett Hull

Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Jack Prelutsky

Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.

Ian Desabrais

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Christopher Hampton

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

Paolo Nutini

I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.

Orson Scott Card

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

Sean O'Casey, Sunset and Evening

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Franklin P. Jones

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

George Eliot

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

Ben E. King