People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

George Orwell

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Virginia Woolf

My cool judgement is, that if all the other doctrines of devils which have been committed to writing since letters were in the world were collected together in one volume, it would fall short of this; and that, should a Prince form himself by this book, so calmly recommending hypocrisy, treachery, lying, robbery, oppression, adultery, whoredom, and murder of all kinds, Domitian or Nero would be an angel of light compared to that man.

John Wesley

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

Buzz Osborne

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Jack Dempsey

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

Sara Quin

This isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Ogden Nash

Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.

Bible

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Barack Obama