The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

Do what gives you joy.

By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late he's too old to enjoy it.

As a United States senator, I've got to do everything that I can to make sure that Trump does not become president.

The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.