An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Ultimately love is everything.

M. Scott Peck

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Barbara Kingsolver

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.

A. E. Housman

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

George Soros

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

Jesse Ventura

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles Monroe Schulz

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Maynard James Keenan

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Edward Gibbon

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield