The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Bruce Springsteen

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Daryl Hall

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

Julius Erving

Une femme repousse parfois ce qui la charme le plus.»

William Shakespeare

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Elizabeth Drew

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Rudyard Kipling

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it.

Charles Dickens

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

Phil Ochs

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people

Abraham Lincoln

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

Chita Rivera