There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
If there is reluctantly obstruction in our life then don’t be amused life is itself immense lesson therefore learn from lesson
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
