People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone saying that I am a mad clown.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that as a novelist you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best but after what he alone loves at all.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

I may be alone in this but I do sense the power of film in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it so by that fact alone I don't want to be one.

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy with people at work with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

I am alone some people help me but basically I can do what I want.

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

People talk about the conscience but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people but I really do my best work alone and I think I would want to - if I did something again I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Weird people follow you in the streets you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Unhappy let alone angry religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of though is being alone which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone were adored. We're loved so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people their history their culture and their values.

On stage I make love to 25 000 different people then I go home alone.

Even if I have to stand alone I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.