Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

William Shakespeare

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Paul Cezanne

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Benedetto Croce

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Hugh Blair

Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.

John H. Mccomb

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

Joaquin Phoenix

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

C. S. Lewis

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

George McGovern

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.

Oliver Wendell Holmes