The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Ernest Hemingway

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

Paul Ryan

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Claude M. Bristol

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

Alan Dean Foster

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

William C. Bryant

We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

Source Unknown

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

Brandon Routh

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

Queen Victoria

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Henry David Thoreau

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

Mick Taylor

Everything that gets born dies.

Morrie Schwartz