The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Alan Hansen

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Paul Harris

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Aeschylus

...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

John Geddes

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

George Washington

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Robert Plant

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Rick Moody

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

Elias Hicks

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Kurt Vonnegut

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Bertrand Russell