Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

If this is freedom, do I want it?

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.