Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Oscar Wilde

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.

Gail Carson Levine

History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John le Carre

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

Jeff Flake

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

William Shakespeare

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

We came here to serve not be served.

Source Unknown

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

Kevin Kelly

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Emmett Kelly