If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

Will Durant

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Stephen King

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

Edmond de Goncourt

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

Elvis Stojko

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don't take life too seriously.

Geri Halliwell

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Mortimer Adler

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

Jon Landau

Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

Orson Scott Card

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

Kenneth Clarke