More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

Joaquin Phoenix

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

Oscar Wilde

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

Andrew Weil

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Proverb

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert M. Hutchins

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Sidney Madwed

Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. She believed she couldn't hurt anybody as long as she was only working.

Jonathan Franzen

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

Tony Scott

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you.Or who isn't.

Mitch Albom

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Rachel Simon