All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Paulo Coelho

He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man

William Shakespeare, Julius Caes

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

John Abbott

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Thomas Menino

The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.

Carolyn Murphy

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Billy Corgan

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Rumi

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

Dean Norris

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Virginia Woolf

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Ernest Hemingway