The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.

Norm MacDonald

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth

Voltaire

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Gerald Early

Time turns our lies into truths.

Gene Wolfe

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.

Van Hartmann

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

Cat Stevens

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

Dalai Lama