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“He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.”
Source : "Stand up and be counted" by Sam Taylor, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2000. 
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“Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.”
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“If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.”
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“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”
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“When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.”
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“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of ***** in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.”
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“No one should have to grieve alone...”
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“My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.”
Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Alex Ebert Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.”
Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.130, Hawthorne Books
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“Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.”
