Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Lou Reed

There is no God. And Brian Wilson is his son.

Master Yoda

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Yakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, but socially dead.

Phil Jackson

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Karuna Riazi

Writing is not a fanciful venture. It is the most meaningful, purest step forward in your own personal art. Do not diminish the importance and power in your own fingers tapping at your keyboard or wrapped around a pencil. This is the moment in which you embrace the might of your creation.

Hesiod

They only care about frivolous things. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly ... impatient of restraint.

Kait Rokowski

Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.