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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.

If you aim at nothing youll hit it every time.

Fear grows in darkness if you think theres a bogeyman around turn on the light.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.

Making art is different for everyone.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head - I wear them around my neck and on my bag.

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.

I have a dog whose name is Banquo.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.