I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. Deuteronomy 30:19

Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that's the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it

Mary Martin

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Source Unknown

But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty.

David Hume

Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

J. G. Ballard

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

John Mayer

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

Ken Buck

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Joseph Addison

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

Ronald Reagan

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

George Leonard

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Fred Durst

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Greil Marcus