A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

Lady Gaga

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.

George Washington

I always advise people never to give advice.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.

Robert Penn Warren

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Steve Irwin

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

Dominic Monaghan

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Dennis Weaver

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard