"When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance."

“When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.”

“I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.”

“Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.”

“The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.”

Source : David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.17, Paulist Press

“Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.”

Source : John Keegan (2012). “A History of Warfare”, p.94, Vintage

“You can't express inspiration without skill.”

“A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.”

“If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.”