Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
-William Goldman
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
In life, if you wish to save yourself from going insane, set your anger and love
free... Suppressing them, both get perverted and assume monstrous forms.
-Deep Trivedi
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.
-Laurence Binyon