{"author":"Michael Jackson","author_id":"Michael+Jackson","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. ","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["knowledge"],"id":524,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["love","work","family "],"id":13122,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["inspirational"],"id":51549,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go as far as to just stick it in your pocket and walk off. Now, if it was a good thing, they wouldn’t do that. I mean, would somebody drop something beautiful in my pocket and just walk off? But I don’t want to have anything to do with any of that. I mean, as corny as it sounds, but this is how I really believe: Natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. Who wants to take something and just sit around for the rest of the day after you take it (drugs), and don’t know who you are, what you’re doing, where you are? Take in something that’s gonna inspire you to do greater things in the world.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["drugs"],"id":53725,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["confidence","dreaming","inspirational","musician","wisdom"],"id":80477,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["life","children","child "],"id":107691,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I'd make it right before the last speck of light vanished.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["dreams","wishes"],"id":112062,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["inspirational","life","love","pop","singer","songwriter"],"id":116350,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["alienation","destruction","healing","people","world"],"id":122707,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"},{"text":"I'm starting with the man in the mirror,I'm asking him to change his ways;And no message could have been any clearer,If you wanna make the world a better place,Take a look at yourself, and then make a change!","author":"Michael Jackson","tags":["inspirational"],"id":142005,"author_id":"Michael+Jackson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}