"A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor."

“All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people”

“If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.”

Source : Shirin Ebadi (2011). “The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny”, p.252, Kales Press

“You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.”

Source : Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

“Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.”

“So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?”

“We just need the laws to change - it's 2012," JWoww said to MTV News. "I want to see my best friend get married, and I want to see everyone in every state be able to get married. It's their choice. It's not affecting our lives. So let them be equal. We want them to be able to experience life, and if they want to be miserable and married, let them be miserable and married like us.”

Source : "Snooki, Jwoww 'proud' of President Obama for supporting gay marriage" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. May 11, 2012.

“Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.”

Source : "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1 News, September 18, 2006.

“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.”

Source : Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.147, I.B.Tauris