Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. – Anne Dudley Bradstreet
I find Indian music very funky. I mean its very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But its the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. – John McLaughlin
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. – Chuck Close
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis
