I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Charles Dickens

First melted off the hope of youth Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow servile insincere But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there

Emily Bronte

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

William Shakespeare

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Paul Erdos

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

William Shakespeare

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Salma Hayek

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Walter Lippmann

Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people.

Gerhard Kocher

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went- Then you may count that day well spent.

George Eliot

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Freddie Mercury