I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Vaclav Havel

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis

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

H. Rider Haggard

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Gerald W. Johnson

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Coolio

That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.

Alex Flinn

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

Rodney Dangerfield

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Albert Einstein