My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Plato

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!

Ruskin Bond

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Chief Joseph

I don't care what people think of me. I don't even care what happens to me.

Lil Peep

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Albert Einstein

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

Rae Carson

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

C. L. R. James

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to.

Virginia Woolf

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lewis H. Lapham

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Glenda Millard