Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Bishop Robert South

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Pryor

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stephen Fry

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Rush Limbaugh

To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Life is a dream a little less inconstant.

Blaise Pascal

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Aaron Klug

I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

Benjamin Franklin

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

Alex Harris