Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

Norah Jones

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Sir Thomas Browne

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

Vitruvius

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Harry Dean Stanton

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Rumi

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

John Green

But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must master it. Genesis 4:7

Bible

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

John Milton

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

Lucille Roybal-Allard