If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve

Benny Bellamacina

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

George Dennison Prentice

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

Jodi Picoult

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Louis Armstrong

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Kate Smith

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians.

Ernest Hemingway

Winning tastes good.

Jean Claude Killy

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Martha Beck

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Edmund Burke