Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
-forgotten poet (sorry)

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."
-Annie Sullivan

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-Elbert Hubbard

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.'"
-Aaron Copland

"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."
-Samuel Goldwyn

"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."
-Solomon Short