To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Alanis Morissette

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Sargent Shriver

I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.

Orson Scott Card

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

Abraham Lincoln

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Robert Lindner

Live music is better.

Neil Young

Dreams are a scientific fact.

Robyn Hitchcock

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Anne Lamott

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

John Gray

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

Hillary Clinton

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln