Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise hold more peace.

Anon.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.

Henry David Thoreau

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Thomas Mann

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

Look at things... as they can be.

Dr. David Schwartz

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

C.S. Lewis

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Marvin Hamlisch

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

Edward Grey

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Andre Gide

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayso