Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use

Abraham Lincoln

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

William Shakespeare

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Janet Reno

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

Hillary Clinton

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.

W. S. Gilbert

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith

Thomas Carlyle

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Roger von Oech

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

Kahlil Gibran

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

Alexander Henry

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.

Myriam Miedzian

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

C.S. Lewis