I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to Americanize him.

Charles Horton Cooley

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Olin Miller

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Proverb

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Nora Roberts

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

Gary Lineker

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.