Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.

The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.