Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch, Life of Sertorius

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Tom Robbins

In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.

Melissa McPhail

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare

If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

Brandon Boyd

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

Camille Paglia

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Duchess Prazlin

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

Barbara Boxer

Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

John Glenn

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. It is to be feared, however, that if the word is avoided the confusions of thought with which it has been associated may persist.

Bertrand Russell

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

James Iha