You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Chris Isaak

Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful.

C.S. Lewis

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

Du Fu

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Ronald Reagan

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Paul Westerberg

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

James Larkin

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke