If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

Atticus Shaffer

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Gore Vidal

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

Kalpana Chawla

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Stokely Carmichael

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Gabrielle Union

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Mary Daly

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Patrick Kavanagh

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

Vanna Bonta

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

Victoria Gotti

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

Andrew Weil

...Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...

Neil Gaiman