There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. Philip K. Dick, Valis

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. Henry M. Robert

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are...

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused ? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. George W....

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world. George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004