To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.

Imam Ali

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

George Saunders

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul Alinsky

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 1 Timothy 6:7

Bible

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Thomas Troward

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

Virginia Woolf

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

Mayer Hawthorne

In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.

Jody Watley

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Eliel Saarinen

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

Alison Krauss