Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.

I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.