The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Joy Page

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Anthony Kiedis

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

William Shakespeare

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

John Strachan

What a mean kid too. Why he puts krazy glue in my preparation H.

Rodney Dangerfield

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Norman O. Brown

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar Bradley

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Hunter S. Thompson

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

Chris Christie

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Will Smith

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar