Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

Jolene Blalock

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

Barney Frank

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Aaliyah

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

George Farquhar

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Henri Frederic Amiel

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

Andrew Gross

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

Friedrich Nietzsche

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive

Friedrich Nietzsche

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

Source Unknown

The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

Ernest Hemingway