We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Lawrence Welk

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Thomas Carlyle

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

David Foster Wallace

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Julius Erving

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

Jane Austen

I learn from experience.

Alan Dershowitz

Be considerate with the Earth. More people have to use it when you're gone.

Steve Maraboli