Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corita Kent

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

When men make gods, there is no God!

Eugene O'Neill

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will.

Mark Twain

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

Curt Schilling

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Marina Warner

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

David Attenborough

Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.

Steve Maraboli

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

Lexa Doig

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

Taylor Lautner

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau