Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

George A. Smith

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

Mos Def

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

Geraldine Brooks

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Francis Bacon

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Giorgos Seferis

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

Werner Heisenberg

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

Markus Zusak