Music is a means of giving form to our inner feeli — George Santayana

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ♥ 1 Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. There is nothing impossible, therefore, in the existence of the supernatural; its existence seems to me decidedly probable; there is infinite room for it on every side. Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. Groucho Marx That which does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche