The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Joseph Butler

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Pierre Bourdieu

Y, aún con todo, la gente quiere llegar al otro, al corazón del otro, por eso existe la música: si no eres capaz de decirlo, cántalo.

Keith Richards

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Charles Munch

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Gifts burst rocks

Benjamin Franklin

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

John Dobbin

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Marcus Aurelius

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

Run for daylight.

Vince Lombardi

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity

Aristotle