"The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later."

-- Melissa Bank

“We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.”
“We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.”
“Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.”
“The way I look at it within myself, why not? Why can't I be the MVP of the League? Why can't I be the best player in the League? I don't see why-why-why can't I do that? I think I work hard, I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age and I know if I continue to do good, what I can get out of it and if that's me going out or doing whatever, I'm willing to do it because I know in the long run, it's going to help me.”
“A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to”
“Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!”
“I donâ€™t care what you write man, just make sure you make us sound sexy. Say that we looked like weâ€™d just come from the beach and that our bodies were glistening. Say we got no hair on our chests. Anything so the girls will like us.”
“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”

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