Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

I think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break them up.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.