I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

Dame Ethel Smyth

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Leo Tolstoy

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science

Henry David Thoreau

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kita hidup dalam sangkar yang terbuat dari tuntutan, rutinitas, dan kebiasaan, dan setelah begitu lama hidup dalam batas-batas ini, kita lupa bahwa sesungguhnya terperangkap

Peter O'Connor

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

J.K. Rowling

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Death's in the good-bye.

Anne Sexton

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Paulo Coelho