Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

Josh Radnor

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed

Martin Luther King Jr.

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--

Cassandra Clare

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Horace Porter

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

G. K. Chesterton

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Brian Aldiss

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

Petra Nemcova

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bertrand Russell