Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The person who tries to stand still on the path will find that it has vanished.
-Robert R. Leichtman
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
-George Bernard Shaw