Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. - Henry Campbell Bannerman
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here. - David Kay
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. - Tom Brown, Jr.
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. - William Odom
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. - Abdul Kalam