Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Todd Tiahrt

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Edgar Winter

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Sigmund Freud

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Walter Benjamin

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Be an opener of doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is fired at us point blank.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

Paulo Coelho

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danny Boyle