Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

I know...and I love you. But I don't think we love each other in the same way. And...I think keeping you near me, would destroy me.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

Desires must be fuelled with discipline

I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

As terrifying as sharks are, I find it far more terrifying, the idea of being trapped on the bottom of the ocean with a ticking clock and running out of air.