We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Chretien Malesherbes

Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

Source Unknown

Change is one of my favourite words.

Carol Vorderman

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

Yoko Ono

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

Herbie Mann

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

Charles Dickens

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

Terry Pratchett

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Michael Chang

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.

Martin Luther

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

Warren Farrell

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Henry David Thoreau

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Neale Donald Walsch