When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

Michael Tilson Thomas

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

Walid Jumblatt

Prongs rode again last nightYou know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night.You found him inside yourself.

J.K. Rowling

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

John W. Thompson

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

Christopher Gadsden

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."

Steven Wright

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Rick Wright

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Herbie Hancock

Knightley Academy stood out against the moonlight in silhouette, a ramshackle collection of chimneys, turrets and gables. Both boys stopped to take in the sight of the manicured lawns and tangled woods, the soaring chapel and the ivy-covered brick of the headmaster's house. They were home. For this, Henry felt, was home. Not some foreign castle encircled by guard towers, but this cozy, bizarre assortment of buildings with its gossiping kitchen maids and eccentric professors and clever students.

Violet Haberdasher

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

Ralph Ellison, on initiations at

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Ivan Goncharov

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

John Malkovich