My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Marcus Aurelius

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.

Chris Page

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Terry Pratchett

I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade.

Jodi Picoult

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Denis Waitley

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Padma Lakshmi

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

David Cronenberg

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

People change and forget to tell each other.

Lillian Hellman

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Donna Lynn Hope