Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

Karl A. Menninger

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Gordon Parks

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

Karlie Kloss

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Anne Lamott

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Doug Coupland

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

Caroline Kennedy

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.

H. Rap Brown

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.

Sylvia Clare

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dean Kamen

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

Charles A. Reich

Patriotism is the vice of nations.

Oscar Wilde

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Benjamin Franklin