I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Robert Duvall

Politics is a blood sport.

Aneurin Bevan

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa

A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.

Gerhard Kocher

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

John Geddes

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Sheryl Crow

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

Ouida

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering

The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.

Leopold Auer, regarding the viol

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Victor J. Banis