Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Terry Pratchett

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Will Rogers

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

Robin Trower

Just now the lilac is in bloom,

Rupert Brooke, The Old Vicarage,

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

Frank Black

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

Henning Mankell

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

Source Unknown

Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.

C.S. Lewis

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

Kurt Vonnegut

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

John Kricfalusi