What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Source Unknown

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

Dejan Stojanovic

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Henry Ward Beecher

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Robin Wright Penn

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, cha

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

George W. Bush

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Ralph Nader

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

John Ruskin

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

Christina Ricci

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne