"I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can."

“In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee”

“My parents have been with me every step of the way.”

Source : "'American Idol's' Haley Reinhart Talks New Album, Guest Stars (Exclusive)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2012.

“The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.”

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.”

“Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government”

“Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.”

Source : "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

“Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.”