When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Donald Judd

We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

Dick Cheney

Bow, stubborn knees!

William Shakespeare

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't even know they're connected. Father and Lily were two sides of the same coin, I've decided, and maybe I am the space in between.

Mary E. Pearson

Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world.

Anonymous

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Sextus Propertius

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.

Chinese Proverb