"I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue."

“Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.”

Source : Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”

“I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.”

“Every field and flower fades, but love is infinite.”

Source : Song: Closer, Album: Northern Star

“The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'”

“I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.”

Source : "Ronnie Milsap's Gospel Music". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

“Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.”

“World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.”