You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

Mahatma Gandhi

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Carter Burwell

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

Robert Collier

Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

Jane Austen

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Stephen King

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Alanis Morissette

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

Charley Lau

Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Kya Aliana