I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

James Galway

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

Proverb

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

C. JoyBell C.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

Henry Miller, The Colossus of Ma

Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

In my life I've been through plenty. when I was three years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

Cassandra Clare

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Henry David Thoreau