I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck's back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted.

Geoff Dyer

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Edward Young

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn

John Barrymore

Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Douglas Noel Adams

At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

Neil Gaiman

Loud is a way of life.

Steven Adler

I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?

Catherine Marshall

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Heraclitus

Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Farquhar Tupper

A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.

Prabal Gurung