You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

King Hussein I

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Dennis Brown

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Ramakrishna

Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: For Heavens sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

Thomas Jefferson

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

Buddha

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward de Bono

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

Tina Weymouth

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Johann G. Fichte

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer