What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Luck is for suckers.

John Green

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Thomas Carlyle

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

Andre Maurois

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Erika Slezak

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Jonathan Swift

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Mark Twain

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.

Jennifer Lopez

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

James Brown

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

Ba Jin

Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no else has thought

Albert Einstein

Por última vez en la vida se preguntó si había malgastado su amor en una mujer que solo daba su amor hasta que llegaba el momento de retirarlo. Apartó el pensamiento de su cabeza. Había entregado su corazón esta única vez en la vida y se consideraba afortunado de haber tenido ocasión de hacerlo. La cuestión de si ella era digna de su amor carecía de sentido. Su corazón había contestado a esa pregunta hacía mucho tiempo

Salman Rushdie

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple