It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Mstislav Rostropovich

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Giancarlo Esposito

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Michael Lewis

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Aeschylus

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Willie Stargell

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom

We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power

Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the A

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

Patrick Swayze

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

Exhaust your worries and they will soon leave you.

Stephen Richards

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

Jason Aldean