Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Not the dogma, not the books, not the scriptures, what matters is your attitude to life.
Birth does not lead to greatness; but cultivation of numerous virtues by a man leads him to greatness.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
-Michael Jackson
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-George Bernard Shaw
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. So we have to know how to act.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague