You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.
This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.
We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.