I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Neil Young

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

Gwyneth Paltrow

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

John Green

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Men argue. Nature acts.

Voltaire

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Henry James

Who should I send for now?Using the last of his strength, Sebastian managed to drag her hand up to his mouth. You, he whispered, holding her fingers to his lips. Just you.

Lisa Kleypas

You may not have been responsible for your heritage, but you are responsible for your future.

Anonymous

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

E. M. Forster

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson