Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Ben Harper

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

Victor Hugo

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Nadia Boulanger

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

Chungliang Al Huang

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Ang Lee

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Michel de Montaigne

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Thomas Jefferson

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

Kelly Osbourne

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Ken Thompson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson