I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Max Weber

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Meister Eckhart, Ordinary Graces

I won't eat anything green.

Kurt Cobain

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Stephen Chbosky

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

I spent much of my life hiding.

Kevyn Aucoin

My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Bill Walton

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Horace

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion

Terry Pratchett