It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad, deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine - no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.

Washington Irving

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Herodotus

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Mother Teresa

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.

Leo Tolstoy

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Dylan Thomas

Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.

Source Unknown

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Sam Harris

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Wayne White

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.

David Gelernter