I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Alice Walker

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Mitch Albom

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Story Musgrave

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

Roy Moore

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Lisa Loeb

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Ted Nugent

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Oscar Wilde

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

Dick Cheney

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

James Allen, A Kentucky Cardinal