Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann von Goethe

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

Temple Grandin

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Heywood Broun

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Erma Bombeck

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Roselle Mercier Montgomery

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

Madonna

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

Scott Walker

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

Ann Coulter

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

John le Carre

All that is not given is lost.

Rabindranath Tagore

The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

Christopher Hitchens