All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album.

From Day 1 I wasnt planning to run until I am very old.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.