Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.