There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.