Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.
The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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.
It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free. . . . The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.
Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.