The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

When you make a promise, you’re not giving your word in erasable pencil, you’re inscribing your commitment in indelible ink.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.

Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

I'd like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don't have the luxury of pulling back from this.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.