"If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart."

-- Rumi

“If you can't do, you had best shut up.”

Source : "Johnny Tremain".
“Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.”
“The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.”
“It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.411, Macmillan
“This is not mathematics; this is theology.”
“If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.”
“Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.”
“Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.”

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