And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Nina Simone

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Woody Allen

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over 0 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

Jim Clyburn

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Margaret J. Wheatley

O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

William Blake

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

Oscar Wilde

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

Lauren Holly

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

William Shakespeare

You are what your deep driving desire is.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Carlo Goldoni

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb