Quotes on Carpe Diem

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.