Oasis

"While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away"

- Oasis, 'Fade Away'

Steve Jobs

"Be a yardstick of quality."

- Steve Jobs, inventor and entrepreneur (co-founder of Apple Inc.)

The Simpsons

"I’ll be back. You can’t keep the Democrats out of the White House forever, and when they get in, I’m back on the streets, with all my criminal buddies."

- Sideshow Bob, "The Simpsons,' created by Matt Groening

Henry James

"Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize."

- Henry James, author

Mary Engelbreit

"If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud."

- Mary Engelbreit, illustrator

Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost, poet

Black Elk

"Behold this day, for it is yours to make."

- Black Elk, 'Black Elk Speaks'

The Smiths

"If I seem a little strange, that's because I am."

- The Smiths, 'Unloveable'

Paul Gauguin

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

- Paul Gauguin, artist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist

Lord Acton

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."

- Lord Acton, historian, politician and author

Frida Kahlo

"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."

- Frida Kahlo, artist

Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

George Bernard Shaw

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Jimmy Eat World

"Are you going to live your life standing in the back, looking around?
Are you going to waste your time?
You've got to make a move or you'll miss out."

- Jimmy Eat World, 'A Praise Chorus'

Mother Teresa

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

- Mother Teresa, humanitarian and missionary

Oscar Wilde

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Havelock Ellis

"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."

- Havelock Ellis, psychologist

Alan Watts

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

- Alan Watts, philosopher, author, orator

Jules Renard

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

- Jules Renard, author

The Beatles

"All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong?"

- The Beatles, 'Eleanor Rigby'

Carl Sagan

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

- Carl Sagan, scientist and author

Friedrich Engels

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

- Friedrich Engels, philosopher, author, economist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, philosopher and intellectual

George Eliot

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot, author

Deborah Tannen

"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations."

- Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics

Edwin Teale

"Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow."

- Edwin Teale, author and photographer

Sarah McLachlan

"I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me."

- Sarah McLachlan, 'Elsewhere'

George Carlin

"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'"

- George Carlin, comedian, actor, author

Shimon Peres

"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."

- Shimon Peres, politician