Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

Jared Leto

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Voltaire

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Thomas Jefferson

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor

Thomas Carlyle

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

Daryl Hannah

I will tell each person what I have told others in the past

John C. Metzler, Comment prior t

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Daniel Webster

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Barbara Sher

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

Milan Kundera