"If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything."

“I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.”

“Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.”

Source : Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.360, Best Books on

“Away with you, water, destruction of wine!”

Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Catullus (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics

“The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.”

“I don't really like the world 'muse.'”

“You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.”

“It's all about loving your parents.”

“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”