When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue

Benjamin Franklin

Today is the only day in which we have any power.

Steve Maraboli

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Voltaire

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Minna Antrim

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Grant M. Bright

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

Paul Walker

Dog is God spelled backward.

Duane Chapman

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

Stephen King

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

Virginia Woolf