"Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great."

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”

“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.”

“The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.”

“Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a lot more exchange in the community, which leads to better policy-making and stronger communities.”

Source : "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.”

Source : "Tori's Side of the Story" by Jessica Horning, abcnews.go.com. March 6, 2008.

“Nothing is the same. I don't have one emotion that's the same. Everything is totally different; I'm a different person, the whole industry is totally different from when Glassjaw was first trying to approach it and put a record out.”

“I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.”

“If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.”