"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."

Bertolt Brecht
(10 Feb. 1898 - 14 Aug. 1956), German poet, playwright, and theatre director.

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."

Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel (2 March 1904 – 24 Sept. 1991), writer and cartoonist.

"It's so exacting writing a book. It's just paper, ink and your thoughts and your sentences have to be exactly right. There's nothing to hide behind; there's no mix to cushion things."

Mark Oliver Everett (10 April 1963), leader of the American rock band the Eels AKA E.

"We reduce ourselves at a certain point in our lives to kind of solely pursuing things that we already know how to do. And I think that's rather unfortunate. It's so much more interesting and usually illuminating to put yourself in a situation where you don't know what's going to happen..."

Brandon Bruce Lee (1 Feb. 1965 – 31 March 1993), American actor.

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

David Foster Wallace
(21 Feb. 1962 – 12 Sept. 2008), American author of novels, essays, and short stories.

"I can't imagine why we all don't want desperately to take care of each other."

Drew Blyth Barrymore
(born 22 February 1975), American actress and film producer.

"There's a tendency, because the Beethoven (Violin Concerto) is played so often, to try to milk every moment and enforce music onto it. It becomes like an actor overacting a part... I tend to like to err on the side of letting the beauty come out, rather than inflicting an interpretation upon it."

Joshua Bell (born 9 Dec. 1967), American Grammy Award-winning violinist.

"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 9 Nov. 2008), South African singer, AKA Mama Afrika.

"When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important." Read more »

"I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace."

Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978),
American R&B and pop singer-songwriter and actor.

"It's only words... unless they're true."

David Mamet
(30 Nov. 1947), American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director.

"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."

Nikos Kazantzakis
(18 Feb. 1883 - 26 Oct 1957), Greek writer and philosopher.

"Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid."

Jenny Holzer
(born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio), American conceptual artist.

"I picture my epitaph: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown."

Paul Leonard Newman (26 Jan. 1925 – 26 Sept. 2008), American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast.

"Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past."

Lily Tomlin
(1 September 1939), American actress, comedian, writer and producer.