One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Chrissie Hynde

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

Jessica Alba

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

Jan Brewer

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

Virchand Gandhi

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

Barry Goldwater

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Bertrand Russell

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Friedrich von Schiller

We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and velour, so long as we are not free. I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Michael Savage