"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."

“I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

“Stop worrying about what others think. At the end of the day, you have to live with you. Trust yourself. No one has to tell you when it's right. Do what you need to do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Cheryl Richardson from Apr 06, 2012

“Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.”

“I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!”

Source : USA Today, September 24, 2004.

“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”

“What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.”

“In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.”

“Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.”