I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable

Mahatma Gandhi

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

J.K. Rowling

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Elton John

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Brendan F. Behan

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Terry McAuliffe

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

David Nicholls

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Hermann Broch

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Terry Brooks

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Pat Summitt