Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Glenn Hughes

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Carl Sagan

Money begets money.

Italian Proverb

Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.

J.K. Rowling

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

V. S. Naipaul

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Sir Walter Raleigh

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Chad Harbach

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

Foxy Brown

Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau