Speak not too well of one who scarce will knowHimself transfigured in its roseate glow;Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true,Remembering always he belongs to you;Deal with him as a truant, if you will,But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

John Green

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

Elizabeth Gilbert

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Ziggy Marley

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

Richard G. Scott

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

General Douglas MacArthur

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Ernst Toller

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Marianne Williamson

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

J. G. Ballard

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Elizabeth Wurtzel