Life always refused simplicity.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.

It is not money that is been jeopardized on daily basis, it is actually 86, 400 seconds of your life. You are given that amount of life every day in time not in money.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

I also have to add that if Rembrandt had been given a camera then that guys understanding of light and form would have blown the rest of us shooters into a black hole of despair.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.