My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Martin Luther King Jr.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Jillian Michaels

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Douglas Coupland

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

J. K. Rowling

The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.

Terry Pratchett

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

Barbara Cartland

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Billy Eckstine

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

Elayne Boosler

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

William Safire

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Sydney J. Harris

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

Abu Bakar Bashir