You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

Rick Santorum

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Ezra Pound

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Johann von Goethe

Speak the truth and shame the devil.

Proverb

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

Publilius Syrus

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.

Charles Sawyer

I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

Samantha Morton

What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.

Steve Jobs