The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.

Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Sumner

In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Edward W. Howe

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Vic Braden

Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge

Banani Ray

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Corazon Aquino

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Victor Hugo

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

Jos tämä on paras mahdollinen maailma, millaisia sitten ovatkaan muut?

Voltaire

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

Jeff Bridges