There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil.

be my sonata, my cantata, my lovesing me something sweetbut not too sweet(or i may grow deaf to our harmonyas we decrescendo into silence)

I call him Alshon. He calls me Demaryius Thomas.

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

I love networking. But I learned to love it

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.