Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

Bryan Clay

Black with hate, said Becca. You are gathering your people with hate. Can you imagine conducting a war with love? asked Ta-Kumsaw. That's a reason to refuse to make war at all, she said gently.

Orson Scott Card

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Blaise Pascal

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Princess of Wales Diana

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Jules Feiffer

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Leo Buscaglia

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Francis Bacon

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Joseph Heller

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Charles Horton Cooley, Life and