Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.

DeForest Kelley

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein

I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Kurt Vonnegut

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Ovid

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

Julie Anne Peters

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Horace

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

Mick Taylor

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.

Steven King

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Johann von Goethe