Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Galen Rowell

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Vivienne Westwood

Truth is the safest lie.

Jewish Proverb

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friendsthose whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the workwho do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not failif we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Christine Baranski

I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

Logic

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

H. Rider Haggard

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Henry Giles

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Mary Douglas

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Marilyn Monroe

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Kathy Griffin

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Georgia O'Keeffe