To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

There’s just one place to live – the impossible.

If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.

Cuba will be free. I already am.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys.

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to be used against interests of ours.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.