It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H. W. Bush

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Herb Caen

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

James Broughton

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Oscar Wilde

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Nikki Giovanni

The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

You can not do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do.

Anon.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Sam Snead

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Rachel Naomi Remen