“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

-Maya Angelou

“Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”

-Anatole

“I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”

-Jane Wagner

“Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”

-Ambrose Bierce

“To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

-Samuel Butler

“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.”

-Max Beerbohm

“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.”

-Bill Vaughan

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”

-Cleveland Amory

“525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes – how do you measure, measure a year?”

-Johnathan Larson

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

-Iris Murdoch

“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing.”

-John Steinbeck

“What I tell you three times is true.”

-Lewis Carroll

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

-Ernest Hemingway

“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

-John Updike

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

-Jack Kerouac

“Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.”

-Louise Beal

“As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.”

-Jules Renard

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.”

-Victor Hugo

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“The body of a young woman is God’s greatest achievement. Of course He could have made it to last longer, but you can’t have everything.”

-Neil Simon

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”

-Harlan Ellison

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

-Mark Twain

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”

-Mark Twain

“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”

-T.S. Elliot