I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.

Christopher Hitchens

You get educated by traveling.

Solange Knowles

To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views with a believer even for a short time, and let us make the assumption that this is a mild and decent believer who does not open the bidding by telling you that your unbelief will endanger your soul and condemn you to hell. It will not be long until you are politely asked how you can possibly know right from wrong. Without holy awe, what is to prevent you form resorting to theft, murder, rape, and perjury? It will sometimes be conceded that non-believers have led ethical lives, and it will also be conceded (as it had better be) that many believers have been responsible for terrible crimes. Nonetheless, the working assumption is that we should have no moral compass if we were not somehow in thrall to an unalterable and unchallengeable celestial dictatorship. What a repulsive idea!

Christopher Hitchens

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

C.S. Lewis

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Margaret Thatcher

You're a dream. Like everything else.

Kelly Creagh

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Junot Diaz

If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.

LL Cool J

Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.

Philip Roth

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

Jason Gann

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Hayley Williams