Robert Hunter

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

Rainer W. Fassbinder

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

Henry Constable (1562-1613)

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

Yo Yo Ma

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

Buddha

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

W.C. Fields (1880-1946)

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

James Joyce (1882-1941)

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Ali McGraw

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

Phil Lesh

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

Lauren Bacall

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

Lu Xun (1881-1936)

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Gary Snyder

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

Barack Obama

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Steve Allen (1921-2000)

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Tom Wolfe

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Confucious (557BC-479BC)

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Ram Das

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.