Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Fred Rogers

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Lisa Marie Presley

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Taylor Swift

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Al Batt

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul Tournier

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Samuel Johnson

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

David Sarnoff

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

Saxby Chambliss

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

Cecelia Ahern

I never wanted to be famous.

Dave Attell

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

Alice Walker