"Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?"

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

"The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together — with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter."

"They made you think that, what you need is what they sellin', Made you think that buying is rebelling."

"Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."

"Anger is a gift."

"The trouble with you and me, Ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that's impossible; you just don't meet everyone in the world."

"Is all the world jails and churches?"

"Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."

"Fools follow rules when the set commands you."

"Something must be done, about vengeance, a badge and a gun. So rip the mic rip the state rip the system, I was born to rage against them."

"Shackle your mind when you bend on the cross, When ignorance reigns life is lost."

"If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face."

"Day after day There are girls at the office And men will always be men. Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers; You may not see him again."

"They mean a trip to Paris or Rome To someone else but not for me. The trains and boats and planes Took you away, away from me."

"On the day that you were born The angels got together And decided to create a dream come true So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold And starlight in your eyes of blue."

"Fame and fortune is a magnet. It can pull you far away from home With a dream in your heart you're never alone. Dreams turn into dust and blow away And there you are without a friend"

"I just don't know what to do with my time I'm so lonesome for you it's a crime Going to the movie only makes me sad Parties make me feel as bad When I'm not with you I just don't know what to do"

"What do you get when you fall in love? You only get lies and pain and sorrow So, for at least, until tomorrow I'll never fall in love again"

"Every time you go away, I always say This time it's goodbye, dear Loving you the way I do I take you back, without you I'd die dear Knowing I love you so."

"The man who shot Liberty Valance, He was the bravest of them all."

"The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go, Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow."

"Mother told me always to follow the golden rule. And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel. So remember if you're untrue Angels up in heaven are looking at you."

"Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind? And if only fools are kind, Alfie, then I guess it's wise to be cruel."

"What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone."

"Raindrops keep fallin' on my head And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed Nothin' seems to fit"

"The way that we cheered whenever our team was scoring a touchdown, The time that the floor fell out of my car when I put the clutch down."

"Pussycat, pussycat, You're so thrilling and I'm so willing to care for you. So go and make up you big little pussy cat eyes."

"I walk along the city streets you used to walk along with me, And every step I take recalls how much in love we used to be. Oh, how can I forget you? When there is always something there to remind me"

"Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa, Ah, only one day away from your arms; I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do? And I can never, never, never … go home again."

"Foolish pride Is all that I have left, so let me hide The tears and the sadness you gave me When you said goodbye Walk on by"

"Green Acres is the place to be; Farm living is the life for me."

"There were three sisters, three little sisters, And each one was only in her teens, And one loved a soldier, and one loved a sailor, And one loved a man from the marines."

"And those three sisters, three little sisters, They stayed home and read their magazines, And you can tell it to the army, tell it to the navy, And tell it to the marines."

"They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're all together ooky, The Addams Family."

"No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true."

"The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace."

"Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them."

"I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?"

"Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands."

"It is a religion of principle that God wants from us, not one of mere feeling."

"Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys — sickness destroying the flavor of them all — did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him — this is all."

"And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's-self, not a cloak put on to go to church and hang up out of the way against next Sunday."

"Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls."

"The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now."

"I thought that prattling boys and girls Would fill this empty room; That my rich heart would gather flowers From childhood's opening bloom.One child and two green graves are mine, This is God's gift to me; A bleeding, fainting, broken heart— This is my gift to Thee."

""Cheerfully and gratefully I lay myself and all I am or own at the feet of Him who redeemed me with His precious blood, engaging to follow Him, bearing the cross He lays upon me." This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet."

"Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, And down drops a little dream for thee. Sleep, baby, sleep!"