Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

You do your best work when you’re having fun.

Man says--"So, so." Heaven says--"No, no."

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.