What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.
I really do seek to create music that is timeless,. . . Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make. . . The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do. . . It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.
You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.