I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Kendall Adams

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

Jennifer Garner

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Pat Buckley

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

John Knowles

A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life

Thomas Jefferson

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

Chad Harbach

We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne