The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.
There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.
Swing is my favorite kind of music.
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.