Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

People | Sense |

Hans Küng

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.

Hannah Arendt

The reluctance to recognize the Will as a separate, autonomous mental faculty finally ceded during the long centuries of Christian philosophy.

Italian Proverbs

The applause of the people is a blast of air.

Art | Words | Art |

Italian Proverbs

The best defense is a good offence.

Time | Learn |

Italian Proverbs

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Ability | Coercion | Power |

Italian Proverbs

Once resolved, the trouble is over.

Church | Counsel | Rest | Counsel |

Italian Proverbs

My No is as good as your Yes.

Think |

Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The right man comes at the right time.

Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

Italian Proverbs

The lion had need of the mouse.

Little | Rest |

Italian Proverbs

Those who begin many things finish but a few.

Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

Better | Cause | Peril | Time | Will |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

In plain words; now that Britain has told the world she has the H-Bomb, she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject, in all circumstances, nuclear warfare. This is not pacifism. There is no suggestion here of abandoning the immediate defence of this island...No, what should be abandoned is the idea of deterrence-by-threat-of-retaliation. There is no real security in it, no decency in it, no faith, hope, nor charity in it.

Earth | Experience | Need | Revolution | Sacred | Will | Value |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Ability | Change | Experience | Important | Myth | Qualities | Reading | Space | Time |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

But it is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

Chance | Good | Little | Reason | Rest | Slavery | Will | Woman |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

Prison | Receive | Learn |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Don't ever laugh at live Dragons, Bilbo you fool!

Change | Reason | Relationship |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

Nature | Technology | Time |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch to light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ?em, fry and roast ?em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!