Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Ernst Rohm

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Hans Bender

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Thomas Carlyle

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Anthony Bourdain

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Marston Bates

I've always been wary of marriage.

Cynthia Nixon

Only those live who do good.

Leo Tolstoy

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

Shaun White

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Mariska Hargitay

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Lee Iacocca

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

R. S. Storrs