The dull pray

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'