No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.

Christopher Hitchens

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!

Sandra Chami Kassis

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Wilhelm Ostwald

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.

Neil Gaiman

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Samuel Butler

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

Emeril Lagasse

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Don Marquis

We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I

Paul Newman, quoted by author of