I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.

Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.

Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.