I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

David Brinkley

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

Kenneth Rexroth

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

J. D. Salinger

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

T. S. Eliot

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Billy Corgan

... politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

Paul Krugman

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Jodi Picoult

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Thomas Jefferson

Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.

Gerard Way