Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Robert A. Heinlein

I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer, Trees

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliot

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Charlie McCarthy

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Betty Bender

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

Michelle Williams

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Frank Zappa

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

Kyle Schmid