A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

Tim McGraw

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Jim Evans

And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.

Dorothy Parker

What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.

John Stuart Mill

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing.

Cristina Marrero

Desire is the essence of a man.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Carl Levin

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt