There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arabic Proverb

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in theirpower, which no subsequent connections can supply..

Jane Austen

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

Ariel Dorfman

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Melanie Chisholm

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Amy Lowell

As to her worshippers she came descending from her glowing skies So Aphrodite I have seen with shining eyes look through your eyes: One gleam of the ancestral face which lighted up the dawn for me: One fiery visitation of the love the gods desire in thee!

George William Russell

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

Norman Mailer

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

William S. Burroughs

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

General Robert E. Lee, Said befo

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Charles Wilson

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James