You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Mark Twain

How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.

Dan Reiland

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

Mark Twain

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

John Green

Authority is quite degrading

Oscar Wilde

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Maria Sharapova

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Sade Adu

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Jackie Kennedy

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.

Charles Dickens

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes