Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 2:30PM "I was probably one of the smartest kids in my class at the time except, you would have never known it, just because where my intelligence lay wasn't able to be tapped in the particular system and I didn't know how to do it myself until music came along and opened me up, not just to the world of music but to the world period."
"To the events of the day, to the connection between culture and society and those were things that riveted me and engaged me in life, gave me a sense of purpose, what I wanted to do, who I wanted to be, the way that I wanted to do it, what I thought I could accomplish through singing songs and writing about what interests you. Every good writer and film maker has something eating at them that they can't quite get off their back and so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions."
Bruce Springsteen - October, 2007
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 2:29PM "I will say this in terms of success, this will surprise you. You have lived a successful life if, as you get older, the people that you hope love you do. And I've known a lot of people at this point in my life and I've seen them in very ordinary jobs and all kinds of situations if the people around them love them, they feel very successful."
Warren Buffett on PBS "Back to School"
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 2:28PM "The saddest thing to me, in looking back on my life, has been to recall, not so much the wickedness I have been involved in, the cruel and selfish and egotistic things I have done, the hurt I have inflicted on those I loved – although all that’s painful enough. What hurts most is the preference I have so often shown for what is inferior, tenth-rate, when the first-rate was there for the having. Like a man who goes shopping, and comes back with cardboard shoes when he might have had leather, with dried fruit when he might have had fresh, with processed cheese when he might have had cheddar, with paper flowers when the primroses were out. "
Malcolm Muggeridge - Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Infernal Grove 1973
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 2:28PM "The greatest blessing in my life was being introduced to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit the great I AM at a very early age. He has been my Guardian, Mentor and Protector all of my life, since age 10 or ll His angels have watched over me. Though through the sin in my life I have ignored Him at times, He has NEVER left me or forsaken me. For this I am grateful and want to worship him and eternally thank Him, and serve Him now and forever."
Thomas Clinton Fenwick 1927-2006 on March 5, 2003