) Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn't.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

If ignorance is bliss the world is comfortably surrounded by the inhabitants of an Eden!