a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Bertrand Russell, Nobel Lecture,

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

Gustave Flaubert

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

Learning the truth has become my life's love

Dan Brown

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Tiffeny Milbrett

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules

Samuel Johnson

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

Proverb

I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

Leighton Meester

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Albert Einstein, "The Saturday E

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

Orson Scott Card

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing.

Alan Jackson

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather