I don't take my fans' love and dedication for granted.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Oriana Fallaci

And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

Kurt Vonnegut

Children and fools speak true

Proverb

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Joe Biden

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Douglas Murray Mcgregor

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

Henryk Skolimowski

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

John Ruskin

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Aldous Huxley

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

John Green

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

Peter Steele

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

David Ogilvy

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

Jodi Picoult