We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

Emma Thompson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Herman Melville

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Anthony Davis

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Eric Hoffer

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

Paulo Coelho

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

George Bernard Shaw

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Chauncey Wright

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Neil Gaiman