The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

Caspar David Friedrich

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

Dave Barry

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Archibald MacLeish

Every man is a d--n fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Gary Larson

How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

The comic book world is a tough business.

Shia LaBeouf

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

H. Stanley Judd

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Gerald R. Ford

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Jim Carrey

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

May Sarton