I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I heard an extract from Parsifal which I disliked very much. If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes...

To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not be brought under control until society itself changes, enabling men to use them as primitive man did: welcoming the visions they provided not as fantasies, but as intimations of a different, and important, level of reality.

Brian Inglis

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

Nick Carter

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Meister Eckhart

Die Sinnlichkeit übereilt oft das Wachsthum der Liebe, so dass die Wurzel schwach bleibt und leicht auszureissen ist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Norman Cousins

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Moshe Dayan

An oyster may be crossed in love.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

It's all about having fun and feeling good!

Marissa Campbell

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt