If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Patricia Briggs

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Emily Carr

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Mark Twain

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Elvis Presley

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think.

RJ Mitte

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

Harmony Korine

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Michael Bloomberg

This mystery of life is what really is at the heart of our concern, because we say it is a gift so stupendous, so magnificent, so mysterious that no one but God has any rights over it.

Theodore Hesburgh

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Gertrude Stein

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Doug Coupland