What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why can

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the chief stress on likeness and not on difference, and in foreign bodies we admit that there are many degrees of warmth below blood heat, but none of cold above it.

Henry David Thoreau

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

Sting

I die adoring God,loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Kevin Costner

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

James Taylor

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty

Samuel Johnson

Die and endow a college or a cat.

Alexander Pope

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's.

Patrick Ness

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Phil Ochs

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson