The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger