My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

A.L. Williams

Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.

George Herbert

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Huston Smith

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

James Broughton

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

Mark Addy

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Bruce Springsteen

I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing neighbours flop their hands over their ears at the sound of a siren to keep fallout from taking hold of their internal organs. You have to be cockeyed to love, and blind in order to look out the window at your own ice-cold street.

Grace Paley

We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.

Albert Einstein

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Fiona Apple