When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Sir Winston Churchill

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Mark Twain

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

Kesha

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

Taylor Swift

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Benjamin Franklin

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.

Benjamin Disraeli

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Harry Browne

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

Steven Pinker

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound