One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

William Shakespeare

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

Jane Siberry

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Robert Browning

Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.

Philip Pullman

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Leo Tolstoy

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

Vera Wang

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution -- this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Margaret Oliphant

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Thomas S. Monson

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

Michael Badnarik

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Nat King Cole