"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

“I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped long ago trying to tell me what I should show in their gallery. They just don't even do it. I show whatever I want to show. They are very happy and as far as I know, they have always been very pleased with whatever I have shown, even if it is nothing to sell.”

“What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.”

“Nobody really lives in the present.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Judgement In Stone”, p.65, Random House

“If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.140, Quirk Books

“We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.”

“I was really kind of miserable with myself personally and all of the things that you can be creatively, until someone said - and I don't know what about it made it click at this specific time - but they said, "You're not 18 anymore, and you're not writing songs in your old bedroom. It's work. You should get up every day and set a perimeter of time and start compartmentalizing your life."”