To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Neil Gaiman

Nature is neutral.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Walter Payton

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Jimmy Carter

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Vanessa Hudgens

Sometimes you have to take those first steps, take that leap of faith, and inspire God to catch you.

Steve Maraboli

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.

Paul Gascoigne

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Anthony Trollope

Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.

Proverb

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Hubert Humphrey