Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.

I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.