Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Guy Finley

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

Carrie Underwood

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Billy Graham

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

Billy Corgan

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Pierre Bonnard

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Dickens

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

Neil Gaiman

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Oscar Wilde

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Enrico Fermi

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain