No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no achievement without goals.

Robert J. Mckain

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

Andrew Bird

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Jack Youngblood

Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who said, 'All Time's delightHath she for narrow bed;Life's troubled bubble broken'? ---That's what I said.

Walter de la Mare

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

Thomas L. Masson

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

Eric Bana

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana