Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

This love is silent.

T. S. Eliot

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

Truth does not happen, it just is.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

I respect Everest very much.

Anatoli Boukreev

Patriotism is the vice of nations.

Oscar Wilde

Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!

Kenneth Grahame

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

Cat Stevens

What's it to you if I love you?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

Jean Rostand

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong

Benjamin Franklin