Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

You may be deceived if you trust too much but you will live in torment if you dont trust enough.

Thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.

I am Summer, come to lure you away from your computer come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations promises...

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run but your mind need not.

I'm just going to be as honest as I can with my children and really try to build their character to be as strong as ours is.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave the road in the right way for the future generations.

I have a tongue like a rose petal, and when I say I love you, it has the fragrance of truth. My words are my garden, and I'm planting our future

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.

There’s always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I’ve learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.