Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Lady Gaga

To a visitor who described himself as a seeker after Truth the Master said, If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else. I know. An overwhelming passion for it. No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Anthony de Mello

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself.

Barbara Kelly

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Dave Barry

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Willie Nelson

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

George Lucas

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

Herb Ritts

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb

Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.

American Indian Proverb, Arapaho