That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

Rick Derringer

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

John Wooden

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

Source Unknown

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy

Don't press her, said Cooper. If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don't insist on his saying it.

Orson Scott Card

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Harold Coffin

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Leo Tolstoy

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Norman Mailer

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.

Luc Ferrari

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Aristotle

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

William Shakespeare

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Franz Kafka