Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

Bill Toomey

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Emily Bronte

You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

Orson Scott Card

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Bethenny Frankel

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Johann von Goethe

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

Make good habits and they will make you.

Parks Cousins

Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.

Cassandra Clare

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

George Eliot

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

William Blake