With Me, I want the Bank of America to know that I'm fucking alive.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Billy Idol

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Novalis

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

Jacques Maritain

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Imelda Staunton

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

Buckminster Fuller

In capitalist society individuals are controlled by a pitiless law usually beyond their comprehension. The alienated human specimen is tied to society as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: the law of value. This law acts upon all aspects of one's life, shaping its course and destiny.

Che Guevara

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

Lilly Pulitzer

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

William Cartwright

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Albert Camus