“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

--- Khalil Gibran, “The Madman”

Excellence can be achieved if you . . . risk more than others think is safe, love more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible.

— Unknown

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our

intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

  --- Bertrand Russell

Without music, life would be a mistake.

 -       Friedrich Nietzsche

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

 - Dean Acheson 

"After silence, that which comes nearest

to expressing the inexpressible is music."

  -     Aldous Huxley

Don't let anyone waste your time. Time is the most precious asset on earth and once gone it can never be replaced.

---  Vern Wolf

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to

avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  ---  Bertrand Russell

I don't believe in the after life, although

I am bringing a change of underwear.

---  Woody Allen