"My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am."

“If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again...”

Source : "White House Awaits Iraqi Report With Skepticism". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2002.

“This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.”

Source : "Song: 'Parabola'". 2002.

“If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”

Source : "Style as Instrument, Style as Person" by Berel Lang, Critical Inquiry Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 715-739, Summer, 1978.

“The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.”

“I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.”

“Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.”

Source : "Happiness is a glass half empty" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.”

Source : Mattie J. T. Stepanek (2002). “Hope through heartsongs”, Hyperion Books

“The thing about Stephen Schwartz is that, while it may be difficult to learn - it's a little bit like[Stephen] Sondheim; Sondheim is quite difficult to learn - but, once you have it in you: it never leaves you. It becomes some of your favorite music; it really does.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com