Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Bob Dylan

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Art Buchwald

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

Lesley Gore

A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

John Ciardi

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Lionel Hampton

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.

GeorgesLouis Leclerc Buffon

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Karl Marx

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Oscar Wilde

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

W. Clement Stone

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal