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

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.

Richard Denney

We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

Edwin Robinson

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

Oscar Wilde

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Viktor E. Frankl

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Stuart Briscoe

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Steven Chu

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Yoko Ono

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Pele

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

Tom Lehrer

Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.

Gerard Manley Hopkins