He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Swami Sivananda

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

Jane Smiley

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

Doug E. Fresh

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

W. H. Auden

Life is pure flame.

Sir Thomas Browne

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Torquato Tasso

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Eli Khamarov

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

Aristotle

Repetition builds continuity, Continuity builds history,History builds Identity.

Roshan Samtani