If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

Vidal Sassoon

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Amy Tan

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Dean Koontz

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Thomas Kempis

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Sugar Ray Robinson

You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.

Cassandra Clare

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

Blaise Pascal

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

Paul Theroux

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

Nicholas Sparks