There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

Lorin Maazel

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.

Blaise Pascal

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Esther Dyson

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?

Kahlil Gibran, The New Frontier

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

Rashida Jones

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

L.M. Montgomery

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

C.S. Lewis

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.

Denis Waitley

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

John Green

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

John Allston

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Philip Larkin