An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

I am in love with the creator of heaven and earth. I see the morning sun and thank the Lord for everything that he has blessed me with. That is a perfect start to every morning.

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.