Happy Anniversary quotes

  • When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

  • Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

  • Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

  • We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.

  • What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

  • It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

  • Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

  • Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.

  • That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

  • Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.