"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest."

Unknown, Source | Vision | 5 bookmarks

"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Education | 2 bookmarks

"A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don't you come to church tonight? I'm giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don't think so. You don't even know how to get to the Post Office."

Unknown, Source | Preachers and Preaching | 2 bookmarks

"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

Lennon, John | Drugs | 4 bookmarks

"Why do we want to test people for drugs and alcohol? Why don't we test them from stupidity, illiteracy and avarice? The place would be better."

Unknown, Source | Illiteracy | 2 bookmarks

"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes"

Will, George F. | Crime and Criminals | 1 bookmarks

"The more I see the less I know for sure."

Lennon, John | Certainty | 4 bookmarks

"A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole."

Zappa, Frank | Drugs | 5 bookmarks

"Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad."

Zappa, Frank | Stardom | 4 bookmarks

"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."

Zappa, Frank | Rock and Roll | 3 bookmarks