This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

J. M. Roberts

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Publilius Syrus

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Victor Hugo

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

William James

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

Oscar Peterson

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

Chad Smith

What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.

Orson Scott Card

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Karl Marx

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

George Santayana, The Life of Re