Well-written words are music.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Scott Thompson

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

Kate Middleton

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Bernard Berenson

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Diego Maradona

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Sloane Crosley

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?...Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

C.S. Lewis

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

Clarence Darrow

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Pat Boone