If a man write a better book preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor though he build his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Music is powerful. It sets the mind and body and soul free in a way that I've need fully been able to understand. Maybe because it's not meant to be understood. It's simply meant to be experienced.

When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide.

It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.

Heroes? Don't believe in them.