The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Talent works, genius creates.
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
When you play, never mind who listens to you.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
As long as Kline doesn't kiss you. " The warning was clear in his voice. "Same goes. " "If he kisses me, he's getting decked. " I laughed. "You know what I meant.
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!