"When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music."

“Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.”

Source : Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

“I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.”

“This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found.”

“I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.”

“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.”

“An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.”

“Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.227, Courier Corporation

“A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.”