Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

Mos Def

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce, Ulysses, ch. 2,

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

Will Durant

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Dan Millman

For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.

Sir Thomas Malory

To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Christopher Hitchens

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

Seal

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

Jason Reitman

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

Joan Didion

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Fred A. Allen

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates