The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

Lauren DeStefano

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Mike Davidson

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Horace

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

Richard Pryor

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Ulrich Beck

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Vanessa Hudgens

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

Gabrielle Union

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

Haruki Murakami

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Lucy Larcom

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Donald Rumsfeld