In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

will.i.am

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Jodi Picoult

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Tatum O'Neal

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Jean de La Fontaine

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Grace (Patricia) Kelly

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Aeschylus

If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Mary Wollstonecraft

An old man turned ninety-eightHe won the lottery and died the next dayIt's a black fly in your ChardonnayIt's a death row pardon two minutes too lateIt's a traffic jam when you're already lateIt's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette breakIt's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knifeIt's meeting the man of my dreamsAnd then meeting his beautiful wife.

Alanis Morissette, Song Ironic

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Thomas Fuller

At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.

Bill Kreutzmann

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

J.K. Rowling

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson