My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Arthur Ashe

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William James

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Henri Matisse

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.

Andrea Jung

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.

Kathleen Sebelius

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Madeleine Albright

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

William Shakespeare

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Caleb Colton

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

David Hume, Treatise of Human Na