Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
-Pete Hamill
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce