It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Don Marquis

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Thomas Jefferson

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

David Cronenberg

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Frank Zappa

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that's the essense of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Patty Duke

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

John Cassis

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Maya Lin

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Justin Sane