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Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the Freedom Party, in the Socialist Party, and also in my party.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Scorpions don’t sting because they have something against you. They sting because it is in their nature.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Judging by the volume of titles published each year, mystery readers are restless in their pursuit of literary escape. They might travel to far-flung places or stick close to home with their favorite hobbies. They can solve the world's greatest conspiracies or root for a lone wolf grappling with personal problems mundane and bleak.

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

Paradise is not something that we create. Rather, it is something that we find.

The relation to the world, such as it tirelessly announces itself within us, is not something that analysis might clarify: philosophy can simply place it before our eyes and invite us to take notice.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very kind of different power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

The minute that you go to arbitration, it's 100% confidential, so nobody ever hears about it.