Music is a world within itself.
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of universal history.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities.
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be intelligent.
The future of coal lies not in its quantity but in how cleanly and efficiently we can use it.
Literature is the only drug that allows us to temporarily escape reality.