I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us.

Source Unknown

Disappointment came to me,and booted me,and bruised and hurt me,but that's how people grow up.

Morrissey

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

Susan Rice

I tell ya, my family were always big drinkers. When I was a kid, I was missing. They put my picture on a bottle of Scotch.

Rodney Dangerfield

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Emile Zola

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He that drinks fast pays slow

Benjamin Franklin

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Kevin Costner

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Roger Ascham

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal