People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Oh, look at that, he's heard of me. My fame grows.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."