"It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think."

“You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.”

“All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.”

“Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.”

“It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it.”

“He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.”

“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

“No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.”

Source : "An Interview with Mickey Hart" by Michael J. Vaughn, www.themontserratreview.com. 1999.

“Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster