I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Will Rogers

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Ani DiFranco

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Vernon Howard

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Yousef Karsh

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Ralph Nader

Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.

Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Peter Sotos

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

William Bernbach