People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

Curt Schilling

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Robert Penn Warren

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Marc Jacobs

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

Andre Dubus

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Frederick the Great

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Alberta Flanders

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you spell it with a V or a W?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'...

Charles Dickens

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Cassandra Clare

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Joy Baluch