It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

Julian Clary

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

John Powell

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

Usain Bolt

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.

Ludwig van Beethoven

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Wentworth Miller

Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mined the Earth for a particular commodity.

Sir Ken Robinson

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

Randolph Silliman Bourne, Youth

When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

Faith Hill

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil.

Tom Robbins

The lotus flower is troubledAt the sun's resplendent light;With sunken head and sadlyShe dreamily waits for the night.

Heinrich Heine, Book of SongsLyr