“If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".”

“A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.”

“I promise to sing to you, when all the music dies.”

“Music makes promises to the heart that nomere song could ever fulfill.”

“We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land.”

“Little notes of music trembled in hesitation, and burst, and rolled in quick, fine waves, like the thin, clear ringing of glass. Little notes leaped and exploded and laughed, laughed with a full, unconditional, consummate joy.She did not know whether she was singing. Perhaps she was only hearing the music somewhere. But the music had been a promise; a promise at the dawn of her life. That which had been promised then, could not be denied to her now.”