A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Victor Hugo

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

Ani DiFranco

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Frederic Raphael

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Thomas Jefferson

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Pete Townshend

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

John Keats

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Daniel Radcliffe

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Paulo Coelho

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Periander

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, fro