Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Victor Hugo

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Ben Harper

My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.

Seth Rogen

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.

Plato

Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.

Edwin Louis Cole

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

William Hazlitt, The Conversatio

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John le Carre

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Louis D. Brandeis

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.

Dejan Stojanovic

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Saul Williams

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen