I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Kevin Rudd

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Andrew Greeley

Even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't reallychange the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love

Helen Shucman

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

Cher

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.

Greg Werner

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

Billie Holiday

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

Aristotle