I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

William Shakespeare

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

A.T. Baron

No one escapes from life alive.

Michael Crichton

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

Jeffrey Kluger

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Harold Bloom

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Hugh Jackman

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Mark Zuckerberg

The only one who can beat me is me.

Michael Johnson

Let your rule in reference to your social desires be this. Pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as each playing their part in the divine symphony of the universe.

Professor Blackie

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Seamus Heaney

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Meg White