The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Terry Pratchett

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Lisa Loeb

But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

Iain Thomas

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi

Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.

Paul West

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Doug Coupland

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read my lips: no new taxes.

George Bush

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

William Shakespeare

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Albert Einstein