Death cancels everything but truth

one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

Martha Stewart

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Rodney Dangerfield

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Marcia Wieder

[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

Edmond de Goncourt

The healthy die first.

Italian Proverb

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

Florence King

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

Johnny Winter

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

John Galsworthy

There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.

William D. Montapert