My dad played fiddle as well.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Samuel Johnson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

George MacDonald

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Aristotle

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

Michael Jordan

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

Mahatma Gandhi

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

Yo-Yo Ma

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

Robert Wagner

To get something different, you must do something different.

Stephen Richards

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

Virginia Woolf

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington