Ivan Doykov

“Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.”
― Ronald Reagan

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
― Ronald Reagan

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
― Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982

“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”
― Sergei Rachmaninoff