"Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years? The ones that are used today, I was adamant not to hear anyone else play that instrument. I want to approach them as a child and on the basis of each instrument. I wanted my voice to come through, not someone else's."

“To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.”

“I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.”

“Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.”

“You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.216, David R. Godine Publisher

“Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.”

“At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.”

Source : "Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany". Book by Stephen Ambrose, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

“Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends; No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.”