American Quotes

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Reject hatred without hating.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.