It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner

Education is the development of power and ideal.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

Neil Gaiman

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Henry David Thoreau

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

Harry Melling

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Pierre Corneille

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Dee Dee Myers

When the Stranger says: What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? We all dwell together To make money from each other? or This is a community?

T. S. Eliot

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.

Robert J. Ringer