Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

If you surround yourself with people who don't care about you, be prepared for a life of misery.

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong.

Conventionality is not morality.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.