The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Leonard Baskin

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Eric Hoffer

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

Benjamin Franklin

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Malcolm Wilson

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

Michael Phelps

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Julie Burchill

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

Paul Walker

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.

Veronica Roth

She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

Christiane Amanpour