Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together, united by a good and a kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Otto von Bismarck

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

Freedom is control in your own life.

Willie Nelson

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Dick Bruna

Research is creating new knowledge.

Neil Armstrong

And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Leonard Cohen

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

Julie London

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Jean Rostand

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Shmuley Boteach

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Jodi Picoult

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

James A. Froude

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

Herbie Mann