Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

I'm Artistry through Fluent and Flowing Poetry in Motion and I'm Letting it Flow.....

The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'