Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof

So this is how the rich bleed--elegantly.

People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

All go free when multitudes offend.

My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.