"You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end."

“One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Dec 23, 2014

“Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about politics and other things and they get misinterpreted. . . . Have faith but do the work. Live your life right. Dont expect things to happen. Thats why Im put off by magical realism.”

“Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.”

“I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists.”

“Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Apr 12, 2014

“One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.”

“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”

Source : "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It". Book edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379, 1955.

“What we take for granted might not be here for our children.”