My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

Valerie Simpson

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.

Hermann Hesse

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Robert Burns

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

J.K. Rowling

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

A. N. Wilson

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

Kurt Vonnegut

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.

Victoria Addino

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Charlie McCarthy

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Francis Bacon

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Terry Pratchett