Flute Quotes

What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The only thing worse than being blind is

having sight but no vision.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The American people must be the ultimate judge of the public good.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

The wealth of information now available

at the click of a finger amazes me.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is

to become so absolutely free that your very existence is

an act of rebellion.

I would trade all of my technology for

an afternoon with Socrates.

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals,

they seem so absurd and impractical.

Yet I cling to them.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

If you want to conquer fear,

don't sit home and think about it.

Go out and get busy

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower,

or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,

but I have found that when I silently commune with people,

they give up their secrets also,

if you love them enough.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

I’m always looking for something new and exciting.

Much of the social history of the Western world

over the past three decades has involved replacing

what worked with what sounded good.

We’re not here to take part;

we’re here to take over.

Sometimes, when I see

my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own,

I wish I were a child.

No individual has any right to come into the world

and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct

and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

The sky is falling,

but you gotta keep rising.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed,

it is the only thing that ever has.