Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset.

Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.