History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

Katy Perry

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Albert Camus

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

E. B. White

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Mike Farrell

Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is thekey to unlocking your potential as an achiever.

Greg Werner

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

Walter Mosley

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees.

Terry Pratchett

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

Anthony Hecht

Have the courage of your desire.

George Robert Gissing

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde

For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde