I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

Sandra Bullock

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine

Victor Hugo

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Kristen Stewart

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Sir Winston Churchill

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Cameron Diaz

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

Clive James

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patti Smith

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Paul D. Boyer

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

Saul Bellow

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maxwell Maltz