History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Bruce Springsteen

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H. L. Mencken

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

Jodi Picoult

As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity.

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

Paul Prudhomme

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Leonard Cohen

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Jaime King

God be prais'd, that to believing souls, Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair

William Shakespeare

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Paramahansa Yogananda