Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.

Susan Collins

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

Patrick Rothfuss

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Henry Ward Beecher

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Marc Davis

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

M Scott Peck

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

Carly Fiorina

I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

Steve Blake

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

Rahm Emanuel

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Ben Affleck

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Kurt Vonnegut