We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

Anon.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

Friedrich List

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

Schuyler Fisk

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

Norah Jones

The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.

Felix Alba-Juez

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince

The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Natalie Clifford Barney

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

C.S. Lewis

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Alberto Giacometti

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Rod Stewart