The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, its always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. – Molly Ringwald
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. – Natalie Clifford Barney
