Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Julius Erving

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

Sir Terence Conran

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

John F. Kennedy

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Tori Amos

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Orson Scott Card

Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daughter Monica had disappeared into the precincts of that hellish place. What do you find to say to a doctor and a humanitarian who has been gutted by the image of a starving rat being introduced to his daughter's genitalia? Like hell itself the school was endorsed and blessed by priests, in case any stray consciences needed to be stilled.

Christopher Hitchens

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Daniele Vare

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

James Gandolfini

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

Vic Snyder