In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Barbara Jordan

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Phaedrus

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

Valerie Solanis

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

Jon Fishman

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Mary J. Blige

Do what you love and the money will follow.

Marsha Sinetar

We have been cut off from our souls in the West, and because romantic love has become our religion, we think we can find fulfillment through this extraordinary and powerful force that draws us into an illusion of permanence. Passion makes us feel alive, makes us sing, makes us feel in touch with something powerful and wonderful, just as it would if we followed this meaning in life in a more spiritual practice. In the West it is often through such relationships, through another human being, that we search desperately for something, not knowing it is to be found within ourselves.

Sarah Bartlett

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

Sheri L. Dew

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Epictetus

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton