Composition has almost always been solitary.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions.

Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.

All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

I directed plays in college. It's something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I'm a busy actress, and it's very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It's a very - it's a big, big job.

My mother was my best friend and confidante.

U.S. capital formation, which has been pretty high in the '90s and very high in the late 1990s, is what is being financed by the savings of the rest of the world, generally poorer than ourselves, because our deficit on current account, chronic deficit, is their surplus, and they have been willingly bringing that to the American market.

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

The more you do your homework the more youre free to be intuitive. But youve got to put the work in.

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

Two heads are better than one

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.

I was a chemical engineer in school. And, randomly, an ex-girlfriend dared me to do a play.

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties.

The classic literature is always modern.