"You can’t get very far in life if you don’t get away from Self" - George Washington Carver in 1939 The famed scientist and in...

"The fact that a person has deep religious convictions doesn't necessarily mean that that person always thinks that he's righ...

"It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora Ephron, in a 1975 interview with Studs Terkel To many, Nora Eph...

“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson in 1967 As told to Studs Terkel ( http://stud...

"Black is not a color; it's an attitude. It's the attitude of independence, respect and dignity." - James Brown Inter...

"I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do" - Frank Zappa on June 6, 1971, as told to Howard S...

"I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something" - Lou Reed on March 20...

"I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch." - B.B. King on September 5...

"In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly." - Janis Joplin Interview by Howard Smith ...

"I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this lady's voice--I can still hear her v...

"I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“ - Cher in 1999, as told to Benjamin Svetkey. On a spring aftern...

" I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed." - Nina Simone in July, 1968 ...

"Mama just always said, 'you be what you are and you don't have to worry about nothing'"  - Dolly Parton as told ...

" I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." - Ayn Rand on February 25, 1959, as told to Mike Wallace Recording from ...

"I did as much as I could do at that time in my life ... I tried as hard as I could and I couldn't do better" - Dustin Hoffm...

"There's a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we'd be arrested for it." - Mike "Mike D...

"If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel Castro Interview by Clark Hewitt Ga...

“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” - Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace ...

"I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose." - Roger Ebert in 1990 This e...

"It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's real life and their pain ... It's my drug" - Meryl Streep Interv...