There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Without healing, there is no happiness.

She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.

My mom has since confirmed that my overeager go-to response - when I was going anywhere or had anything planned for me - was, "What's everyone else going to do?

You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.

If you lose self-control everything will fall.

Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God’s will.

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated.

I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.