To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

J. G. Ballard

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Marc Jacobs

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

H. L. Mencken

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

William Feather

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Albert Camus

if there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God

Saint Augustine

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Park Geun-hye

For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.

Cory Booker

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

Remy de Gourmont