There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Willa Cather

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Christopher Lasch

Seek out people who aren't afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn't recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

Paulo Coelho

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Dean Koontz

And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.

Richelle Mead

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Lucille Ball

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

John Russell

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

C.S. Lewis