Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

Billy Joel

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

Scott Ritter

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Marguerite Duras

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost

A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off.

Ginnetta Correli

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Victor Hugo

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Jean Rostand

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

Stephen King

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

Bernard Ingham

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Johann von Goethe

You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

Neil Gaiman