"When you look up in the sky, you can see the stars and still not see the light." - Glen Frey

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.   He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious...   it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical.   Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul." - Mohandas Ghandi

"The man who does nothing, makes no mistakes." - Jerry Lewis

"You can see the summit but you can't reach it. It's the last piece of the puzzle but you just can't make it fit. Doctor says you're cured but you still feel the pain. Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain." - Howard Jones <--- sounds like someone needs a zebra hunter...

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals." - Napoleon

"I have never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time." - Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic." Click for lyrics.

"An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour." - Albert Einstein explaining "relativity" to reporters.

"Turn left at Greenland." - John Lennon's response to a reporter who asked "How do you find America?"

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Bill Nye (1850-1896)

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the White House." - JFK

"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it." - JFK

"The pay is good and I can walk to work." - JFK

"Happy." - A young patient's response to Doctor Bolte who asked "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Hope." - Doctor Bolte's response to a pharmaceutical representative who asked what he prescribed the most.

"God will never close a door without opening a new window.  He gives us something better when He takes something away." -

"Again, it seems we meet in the spaces in between.  We always say It won't be long.  But something's alway's wrong." - G Phillips/T Nichols

"Things are for using. People are for loving." - Kahlil Gibran

"Dime: Porque los niños maltratados? Por que los viejos olvidados?" - José Luis Perales lyrics

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." ~ Sam Keen

"How much do you commit yourself?" ~ Talk Talk: lyrics, original and Gwen Stefani versions of "It's my life."

"Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky" ~ Sarah Brightman's version of "Dust in the wind." She's better known for "netto fantasia" and a duet with Andreas Bocelli "time to say goodbye"

"So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key," - Tempchin and Strandlin

"She blinded me with science" - Thomas Dolby

"Let it whip" - The Dazz Band. One of 'em's my patient. This is the funkiest song of all time.

"With every mistake, we must surely be learning." - George Harrison

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." - Paul McCartney, who wrote blackbird. Paul is the world's eighth wonder. No one in music I admire more than Paul McCartney.

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - from "Beautiful Boy" by "jealous guy" John Lennon, who said " all you need is love " and " all i want is you "

"No one I think is in my tree." - from Strawberry Fields by a primal screamer, (thanks, Alan Ginsberg) who also said "don't let me down"

"I can sing for my supper but I just can't make it." - John Lennon . A letter I wrote to Lennon as a boy may have inspired this song. I forgot to ask Sean... "I don't want to face it" covered by "Fab Faux."

"Christ, You know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're gonna crucify me." - Ballad of John and Yoko . Clever video from albino crab

"If I lay here ...If I just lay here ...Would you lie with me and just forget the world?" - Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. lyrics

"Count the headlights on the highway" is something I never seem to have enough time to do. It's a line from Tiny Dancer by Elton John. (tiny dancer lyrics). The video illustrates the talented and beautiful Kate Hudson in "Almost Famous." Kate Hudson is Penny Lane. . (penny lane lyrics). In one week I met her hairdresser, then her aunt (Goldie's sister), and then saw Kate in the village on a break from filming a movie with Matt McConahey. I winked at her as I walked by and she winked back (magic moment/synchronicity). My good friend and childhood buddy Wade Preston sang "Tiny Dancer" to his ballerina bride Angelica at their wedding. Wade currently plays in the Billy Joel tribute band Big Shot (he's the guy in the red shirt behind the piano). Wade is an accomplished musician, a piano man. I'd love to have a talk show with Wade as my in-line skating band-leader...

"I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do." - Ringo Starr

"Now spring is turning your face to mine.  I can hear your laughter, I can see your smile.   No I can´t escape, I´m a slave to love" - Bryan Ferry. Slave to Love lyrics and a reggae version.