What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile. Fix me a toddy, Lola, and we'll sit on the gallery of Tara and you play a tune and we'll watch evening fall and lightning bugs wink in the purple meadow.

It seems to me that religion is losing momentum and God is making a comeback.

Steve Maraboli

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Dean Acheson

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

Paul Theroux

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

Glenn Beck

Opportunities? They are all around us...There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Orison Swett Marden

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Nate Silver

Between here and there is a journey, illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Robert Motherwell

The future will either be green or not at all.

Bob Brown

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

LL Cool J