Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

The best of all lost arts is honesty

Mark Twain

It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.

Arthur C. Clarke

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

Alicia Keys

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

Lionel Suggs

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Music has often been compared with language itself, and the comparison is quite legitimate. While it combines easily with actual language, it also speaks a language of its own, which it has become a platitude to call universal. To understand the significance of the organizing factors of rhythm, melody, harmony, tone color and form, the analogy of a familiar language is helpful. Music has its own alphabet of only seven letters, as compared with the twenty-six of the English alphabet. Each of these letters represents a note, and just as certain letters are complete words in themselves, so certain notes may stand alone, with the force of a whole word. Generally, however, a note of music implies a certain harmony, and in most modern music the notes take the form of actual chords. So it may be said that a chord in music is analogous to a word in language. Several words form a phrase, and several phrases a complete sentence, and the same thing is true in music. Measured music corresponds to poetry, while the old unmeasured plain-song might be compared with prose.

Sigmund Spaeth, The Art of Enjoy

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Niccolo Machiavelli

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Ogden Nash