Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.

Bill Masters

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Alexander McQueen

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Neils Bohr

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Mason Cooley

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Edmund Burke

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

David Hockney

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Haruki Murakami

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

Rand Paul

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Seamus Heaney