To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Nevertheless the passions whether violent or not should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music even in situations of the greatest horror should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it and thereby always remain music.

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about but the inner music that words make.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.