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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.