I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Pierre Bonnard

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

William Allen White

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Plato

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

Reese Witherspoon

Energy is the universal language of Nature

Joey Lawsin

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

Vance Havner

Music is my religion.

Jimi Hendrix

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet

Mark Twain

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Tallulah Bankhead

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Coco Chanel

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

George Bernard Shaw

All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.

Michel de Montaigne