"Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution."

“This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup”

“God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.”

“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.”

“We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.”

“The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.”

Source : Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.79, Northwestern University Press

“There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.”

“In our country, the problem we have in our public school system across the country is that music and arts are on the bottom of the pole, if it's there at all. So the kids aren't exposed to music. I must speak to the music they hear at home too.”

“All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.395