Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.