The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

Shawn Johnson

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

Your overnight success story is always a result of everything you have done in your life until that moment.

Bel Pesce

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

Sufian Chaudhary

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Dietrich FischerDieskau

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Nelson Mandela

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

George Steiner

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Jesus Christ

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Chen Shui-bian

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens.

Shadowlands

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

Oscar Wilde