I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

Garth Nix

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Martin Tupper

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Jeffrey

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Marshall McLuhan

The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them...

Terry Pratchett

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.

Tom Petty

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Lana Del Rey

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha