"Better to be screwed physically than financially."

-- Charlaine Harris

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
“Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.”
“One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.”
“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”

Source : "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.
“When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'”
“I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.”

Source : "Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.
“I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.”

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