A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating.

John Ruskin

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

John Updike

I think nobody really loves America more than black Americans, because black Americans loved America even when America didn't love us back

Jamal Simmons

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

Jonathan Davis

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Johnny Cash

From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when she was impelled to throw herself upon his breast, and give him the pent-up confidences of her heart. But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. The barriers were too many and too high for such a leap. With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.

Charles Dickens

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Ronald Reagan

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Louis D. Brandeis

Were it not for hope the heart would break.

Scottish Proverb

Beauty of omission, of judgment.

Blaise Pascal

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Rob Lowe