I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

Julian Gough

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Friedrich von Schiller

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

Sheri S. Tepper

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Sienna Miller

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We were poor too. Why, if I wasn't born a boy, I'd have nothing to play with.

Rodney Dangerfield

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Rebecca De Mornay

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

John Green

The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.

Steve Maraboli

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Barbara Kingsolver

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Henry Giles