Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Everything that mattered, I learned from surfing.

Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.