My role in society, or any artist or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

Anna Chennault

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C. Clarke

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

Nicholas Sparks

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a word the teabaggers have wanted to use since Obama came on the scene, but they can't because it's not the 1950s. They would love to say this word. It begins with an N and ends with -er, and it's not nation-builder.

Bill Maher

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

Caroline Wozniacki

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Jason Aldean

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Sweeney

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Leonard Cohen

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Rabindranath Tagore

Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living

Mark Twain