Igor Stravinsky

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.