“We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench...”

“Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.”

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

“Shall we not spend our immortal life together? Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!”

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”

“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’vegot none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring upthe masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the moneygives out.”