"A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it."

“I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.”

“The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”

Source : John F. MacArthur (2006). “Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.”

“I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.”

“Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t think life has very much meaning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.”

Source : "Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz musician and educator". www.latimes.com. February 11, 2013.

“Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it”

Source : Eric Ambler (2012). “This Gun for Hire”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”