While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Emma Goldman

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

Valerie Simpson

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Queen Latifah

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

Joan Jett

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

Oscar Wilde

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

J. Kindleberger

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Will Eisner

Don't let the muggles get you down.

J.K. Rowling

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Robert G. Ingersoll