People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Tom Morris

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Japanese Proverb

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

Sebastian Junger

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Vince Gill

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Voltaire

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Karl Jaspers

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Virginia Woolf

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

Jim Butcher

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

Margaret Cho