A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Billy Corgan

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Anna Akhmatova

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Alexander Dumas

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Christopher Monckton

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Sidney Altman

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Andy Warhol

What keeps me going is goals.

Muhammad Ali

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

John Green

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero