I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

To be sexy means to have that special chemistry that arouses others, no matter what you look like. Energy and confidence play a big part, and great skin doesn't hurt.

Anytime something becomes widely condemned and taboo, it will be eroticized.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..

I recognized your good character.Because of my silence, Petra HermansH. Koper

The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.

Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up . . .

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.