Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Ovid

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

John Cale

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Bill Dana

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

John Ashbery

When I was born the doctor slapped my mother.

Rodney Dangerfield

When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.

Michael Bernard Beckwith

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

Ron Wyden

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.

Sun Ra

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

Andrei A. Gromyko