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“However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.”
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“There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.”
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“Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.”
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“The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.”
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“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.”
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“Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal”
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“We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.”
Source : Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.178, Shambhala Publications
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“I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.”
Source : "Chris Froome: I can win five more Tour de France titles". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. August 13, 2015. 
