Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

Eddie Van Halen

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Jean de la Bruyere

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

George Eliot

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Laurens Van du Post

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

Luke Ford

God is the name we give our conscience.

Nader Shureih

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

John Hersey

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

Dan Millman

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Edmond de Goncourt

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

David Bailey