The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Marcel Proust

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Edward Albee

For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.

Miranda July

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

George Eliot

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

Leslie Nielsen

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Bobby Scott

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

Talib Kweli

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Bible

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Jean Baudrillard

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

Orson Scott Card