Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

What await you

Hey. My life’s not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.