The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

If The Way is made clear, it is no longer The Way.

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.

Which is worse: Hell or nothing?

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.