Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

Charlie Haden

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Arthur Koestler

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

Maurice Saatchi

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Henry de Bracton, De Legibus, 12

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Aeschylus

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Sela Ward

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

Adam Rickitt

Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.

Tai Shang Kan Ying P'Ien

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

Daniel H. Wilson

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Taylor Swift

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Benjamin Tucker

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung