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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Sep 10, 2025
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.
The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.
Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
I still find each day too short.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.