I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Albert Einstein

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Ally Condie

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Kelly Clarkson

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

Walter Kaufmann

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Stephen King

NO!The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

J.K. Rowling

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

Judy Woodruff

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

Bill Cosby

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

William Kirby

Drained of faith, I kneel and hail thee as my Lord,I ask not life, thou need not swerve the bullet,I ask but strength to ride the wave, andone more thing, teach me to hate

Henry G. Lee

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Janet Suzman