Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

W. H. Auden

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

Daniel Craig

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

Jerry Saltz

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Alexander Pope

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Mohsin Hamid

To be prepared is half the victory.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

People would rather be wrong than be different.

Henry Jacobsen

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Mason Cooley