No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Brian Eno

Revolutions never go backward.

Wendell Phillips

The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.

Thomas Love Peacock, letter to S

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Robert E. Lee

Glory is the child of peril.

Tobias G. Smollett

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Sydney Smiles

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Berg

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Richard Stallman

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Danish proverb

There is more to life than not dying.

Cassandra Clare

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Xun Zi