Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Aeschylus

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Alanis Morissette

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

Lady Gaga

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Desmond Tutu

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jesse Ventura

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

Chris Hemsworth

I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or streching eyeless years,The early lilacs became part of the child,And grass and white and red morning-glories and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird...

Walt Whitman

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Charles V

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Victor Hugo

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;Life and these lips have long been separated:Death lies on her like an untimely frostUpon the sweetest flower of all the field.

William Shakespeare

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake.

Steve Maraboli