If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

W. H. Auden

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?

Kentetsu Takamori

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Barbara Sher

You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.

Crystal Marcos

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

James Lovelock

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.

Chinese Proverb

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold Glasgow

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Edmund Burke

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Terence

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Lucretius

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Horace