When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

Scott Brown

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Joni Mitchell

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Victor Hugo

We will get true and lasting change as soon as we make helping people a way of life instead of a business.

Steve Maraboli

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

Damon Wayans

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

Richard Nelson Bolles

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

Mick Taylor

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

John Milton

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase