The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
Service is the key to everything in life.
As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.
Being vegan just gives you such great karma.
Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.
I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.
I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.
I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
Although there is a beast in all of us, we don't show it often. But it is very liberating to be that angry at times. Given a chance, I'm sure people would like to go on a rampage and break everything.
I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
My trainer is very helpful in keeping me fit.
For me, fitness is a part of my everyday life. But fitness does not mean having big muscles; it means being active, quick, and flexible. It can be defined in many terms.
Goodness is something people take advantage of, and if you want to remain a good person for long, you should make sure that too many people don't take advantage of you because then you turn bitter.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.
You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.
You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.
You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.
The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.
Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was "The Twist".
My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.
I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.
I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.
Chubby Checker changed the dance floor.
Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.
