Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
PlatoIf the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
Noam ChomskyIn every parting there is an image of death.
George EliotIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch SpinozaThere’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.
Joyce MeyerSilence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Muhammad AliUncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous HuxleyHe who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert CamusA tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the GreatDiplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Colin PowellIn the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise PascalIt’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.
Robert KiyosakiIt is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
Chanakya‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich NietzscheMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise PascalI believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Stephen HawkingI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanHell is other people.
Jean-Paul SartreWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinWhat with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous HuxleyNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
SocratesA radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
Isaac NewtonI am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul SartreKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil GibranWell, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Madeleine AlbrightHonest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiNothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
Clint EastwoodAnybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
Bob DylanOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Albert EinsteinEven a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Joseph AddisonIn search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
Alice WalkerWhatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich NietzscheOne who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John RuskinThe rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David ThoreauNothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PlatoTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheThe capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine AlbrightI prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich NietzscheNothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch SpinozaGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheSorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.
Fidel CastroI’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
Kobe BryantI’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodOf course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
Brian EnoThere is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher HitchensLanguage is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Noam ChomskyIt is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
Pope FrancisPeople have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt VonnegutWhat women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.
Kevin HartI make friends faster and easier than journalists.
Anthony BourdainThere must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
PlatoIt may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
J. R. R. TolkienI’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George H. W. BushHe that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin