There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.

Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.

Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.

Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.

But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

Do you recall that night in June Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the ländler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.