So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

The path of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] is not one of ‘objection’. It is a path of giving ‘no objection’. They remain indifferent if circumstances for objection arises.

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

You are not the one you see in themirror. You are the one who isshining in the eyes of others

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.