How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

Mom is really my closest friend and has been there at every stage. She is the adventurous kinds and made me travel by train alone when I was just five.

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

If you're at Kennedy Space Center, the closest you're going to get to a rocket going off is like three and a half miles.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

I was extremely close to my dad. I think all daughters are very, very close. But I'm the youngest in the family and I think I was my father's pet. So I was the closest to my dad.

Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.