I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

Paulo Coelho

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

Brian Tracy

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

Source Unknown

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

Hailliard

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

Hunter Hayes

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Carroll O'Connor

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken i. e. , committed to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

Sir Edward Coke

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

Jack Vance

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann