Holding an instrument in your hand that has been shaped and worn by an individual that lived a hundred years prior to your existence is like traveling through time and shaking hands with an unknown friend. MR

Dostoevsky quotes, shamelessly gathered from Anastasia's favorite quotes.

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

Rober Louis Stevenson

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Theodore Roosevelt

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

--Will and Ariel Durant

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. Aldo Leopold

Idustrialism would never take the time to ask whether something was ethically and aesthetically correct; time is money and money always trumps both ethics and aesthetics. MR