"Focus on your music and not technology."

“When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.”

“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”

“I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.”

Source : "Melancon Tacks Positive In New Ad: ‘I’m A Pro-Life, Pro-Gun Louisiana Democrat’" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”

“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”

“In the middle of my little mess, I forget how BIG I'm blessed!”

Source : Song: This Is The Stuff, Album: Hundred More Years, 2011

“The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.”

Source : James Prescott Joule (2011). “The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

“He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.”