I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Harry Bertoia

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Gustav Heinemann

I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means short of total war to achieve our ends and oppose communism is a guarantee that a world war will not be thrust upon us. But a policy of patience and determination without provoking a world war, while we improve our military power, is one which we believe we must continue to follow. Under present circumstances, we have recommended against enlarging the war from Korea to also include Red China. The course of action often described as a limited war with Red China would increase the risk we are taking by engaging too much of our power in an area that is not the critical strategic prize. Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.

Omar Bradley

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Source Unknown

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

Lisa Mangum

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

William James