I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

Jerry Saltz

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

Agatha Christie

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

Stephen Richards

The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.

English Proverb