My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

Temple Grandin

That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.

Sherwin B. Nuland

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewis L. Lewisohn

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

Criss Jami

Don't set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift

Law is always better than war.

Brian Eno

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Jane Fonda

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

George Orwell

Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein

Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Terry Eagleton