Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

The early bird catches the worm.

The sea hath fish for every man.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

Coffee makes me go crazy.

I've learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I've also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death in the eyes of members of al Qaeda.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

To have done no man a wrong to walk and live unseduced within arms length of what is not your own with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude this is to be a man.

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions which people dont seem to be shy about expressing.

As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?

Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.