"Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less."

“As loud as they were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night. We need you guys to get those voices right. But they're gonna be unbelievable Thursday night as well. Those guys, everyone, they're amazing.”

“Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.”

Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.90, Gallic Books

“The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!”

Source : Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss, 1938. Testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, pp. 5-6, October 20, 1945.

“The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.”

“It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.”

“I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.”

“Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is that I also happen to love Jesus. When I'm approaching these songs, I'm not approaching them like Mozart. I see my faith and the struggle of my ancestors and of a people seeking freedom beside what these songs are going to be in terms of their arrangement and delivery.”

“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”