The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.

Leopold Auer, regarding the viol

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Peter McWilliams

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Margaret Sanger

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

Michael Bolton

The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either.

Toby Barlow

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.

George Herbert

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

In art economy is always beauty.

Henry James

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Marco Rubio

Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith