Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

Ann Voskamp

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

William Osler

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Meir Kahane

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

Henry Reed

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Robert Graves

When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.

English Proverb

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Anon.

Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites, Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincare

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

Galina Vishnevskaya

Composing is my life blood.

Morton Gould