You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Carl Sagan

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

Eleanor Mondale

They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Arabic Proverb

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Pietro Aretino

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

Edwin Moses

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Herman Hesse

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake, Jerusalem, 1820

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

Jodi Picoult

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

William Hazlitt

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

Arthur Baer