Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Song Of Solomon 4:1

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

St. Vincent

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

Hilary Swank

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Helen P. Blavatsky

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Plato

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feather, The Business of

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Dagobert D. Runes

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

David Herbert Lawrence

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

David Hyde Pierce

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Chris Rock