Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

There is no reason to regard God as immune fromconsideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there iscertainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neitherproved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.

Richard Dawkins

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Kahlil Gibran

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

Cat Power

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!

Franklyn Broude

By doubting we come at truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the marvels of science and the gains of culture belong to the nation as a whole, and never again will man's brain and human genius be used for oppression and exploitation.

Vladimir Lenin

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Earl Nightingale

Washington

Alistair Cooke, Talk About Ameri

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Thomas Fuller

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

Amanda Bynes

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

Anthony Robbins

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Herbert A. Otto