"An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes." — Marty Rubin, Canadian activist, born 1930
"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition." — Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist, born 1887
"Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me." — Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist, born 1887
"It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano." — Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist, born 1887
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." — Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist, born 1887
"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle." — Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist, born 1887
"Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin." — Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist, born 1887
"We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things." — Mary Ruefle, American poet, born April 16, 1952
"Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a writer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again." — Mary Ruefle, American poet, born April 16, 1952
"I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry." — Mary Ruefle, American poet, born April 16, 1952
"In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings. In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it." — Mary Ruefle, American poet, born April 16, 1952
"Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry." — Mary Ruefle, American poet, born April 16, 1952
"Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet." — Mary Ruefle, American poet, born April 16, 1952