And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Laurent Fabius

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Samantha Barks

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

Marvin Hamlisch

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Juliet Marillier

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

Fantasia Barrino

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Paul Bourget

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

Andrew Bird

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Camille Paglia

man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,

William Shakespeare

We would know far more about life's complexities if we applied ourselves to the close study of its contradictions instead of wasting so much time on similarities and connections, which should anyway, be self-explanatory.

José Saramago