The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Pat Boone

So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

For a mother is the only person on earth Who can divide her love among ten children And each child still have all her love.

Anon.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Brian Eno

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Oscar Levant

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Dale Dauten

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Lauryn Hill

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Andrea Dworkin

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

Charlize Theron

With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.

Ron Wyden

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Madeleine L'Engle