"I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that." — Amanda Plummer, American actress, born 1957
"Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol." — Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater, born 1982
"What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest – not an engine, there's blood in my veins – not oil. I know pain and fatigue." — Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater, born 1982
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch, Greek historian, born AD 46
"How high does a sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you’ll never know." — Pocahontas, Native American, born c. 1596
"Sing with all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind." — Pocahontas, Native American, born c. 1596
"But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name." — Pocahontas, Native American, born c. 1596
"Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin." — Pocahontas, Native American, born c. 1596
"There is no exquisite beauty without some sense of strangeness in its proportions." — Edgar Allen Poe, American poet, born 1809
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." — Edgar Allen Poe, American poet, born 1809
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." — Edgar Allen Poe, American poet, born 1809
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed." — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born 1927
"We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?" — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born 1927