You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Cassandra Clare

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Vladimir Horowitz

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Miguel de Unamuno

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.

Henry David Thoreau

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Earl Wilson

No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are.

Steve Maraboli

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

John Steinbeck

When in doubt, wear red.

Bill Blass

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Dwight L. Moody