When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Ambrose Bierce

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Edmund Burke, speech on the peti

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

Hilary Duff

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

Source Unknown

Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

Mike Gordon

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Renee Fleming

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Baltasar Gracian

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo