Yoga and books are the only way out.

If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.

We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

The world is in motion, as it seems.