A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Voltaire

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Sting

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Camille Paglia

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Roscoe Mitchell

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Cindy Margolis

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Takehiko Inoue

I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Luther Allison

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Will Rogers

I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.

David Bowles

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Joseph Addison