Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Sophie Scholl

How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives. What does my death matter if by our acts thousands are warned and alerted. Among the student body there will certainly be a revolt.

1 Corinthians 6:17-20 NIV

¹⁷ But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. ¹⁸ Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Mitch Hedberg

You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

…sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Kahlil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Thelonious Monk

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm.

Buddy Rich

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Thomas Alva Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Optimus Prime

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.