The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. – Thomas Aquinas
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of mens skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. – Lyndon B. Johnson
I think the things that perhaps sad really is that younger people havent come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didnt win the Tony Award. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
