Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Music really is our daily medicine.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I have itwhen I do not want, it.Petra Hermans

But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.