There's more good music being made now than ever before.

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Poetry is the language of feeling.

W. Winter

The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Samuel Johnson

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

Cus D'Amato

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Will Oldham

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

Jodi Picoult

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Benjamin Franklin

And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.

T.A. Miles

Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last.

Dory Hollander