Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.

Alexander Maclaren

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Malcolm Muggeridge

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Henry Miller

He (Bob Marley) had this idea, it was kind of a virologist idea, he believed he could cure racism and hate, literally cure it by injecting music and love into people's lives. One day he was scheduled to perform at a peace concert, gunmen came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. Somebody asked him why. He said the people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.

Bob Marley, Movie I Am Legend st

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

David Hockney

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Wynton Marsalis

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Dame Edith Evans

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

...I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.

Erica Jong

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Saint Francis de Sales