I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann

Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.