Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Position, I

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

Benny Green

Speak when you are spoken to.

Proverb

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

George Ade

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

Reba McEntire

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Katharine Whitehorn

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

John Ruskin

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

Curt Schilling

True happiness comes from doing what's right not just doing what makes you feel good.

Source Unknown

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

Nancy Horan

There is no mystery attached to the fact that, in this new era in human history, when for the first time large numbers of people can live unconstrained lives involving high levels of choice, there is a concurrent explosion in depression rates. The burden of responsibility for making innumerable choices can result in a person's becoming psychologically tyrannized by them.

Gregg D. Jacobs, The Ancestral M

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

General Robert E. Woods