We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Oscar Wilde

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Junius

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Richard Milhous Nixon

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

Eva Mendes

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

Catherynne M. Valente

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Vaclav Havel

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

Hugh Jackman

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht