Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you are young.

Samuel Ullman

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

Birdy

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!

Sir Walter Scott

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Richard Brautigan

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

Ben Carson

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Neal Cassady

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

Ethan Hawke

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander the Great

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Jawaharlal Nehru