They never fail who die in a great cause.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Norah Jones

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Ali Smith

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

E. M. Forster

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.

Justine Larbalestier

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Alanis Morissette

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein, On relativity

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Henry Miller

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

Gwen Stefani

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Billy Graham