"As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts."

-- Robert Fulghum

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“Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.”
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
“Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.”
“I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.”

Source : "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.
“When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”

Source : Attributed to Glenn Gould in "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind" by Geoffrey Payzant, (p. 64), 1978.
“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”
“What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.”

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