I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.
Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.
You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover. . . God's love in yours.
I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel. ' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.