The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Gabrielle Union

Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

Duane Hanson

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.

Danny McBride

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

Peter Sotos

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Robert Wyatt

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Audrey Hepburn

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Oscar Wilde

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

Ellen Hopkins