Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Anthony Kiedis

A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.

Joshua Emmet

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Stevie Nicks

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.

Frederick the Great

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Danish proverb

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Oscar Wilde

Beware of the person of one book.

Thomas Aquinas

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice

William Shakespeare

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Pat Boone

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell