If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

Ian Rush

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

Source Unknown

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Maya Angelou

Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?'Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'Red: 'What're you talking about?'Andy: 'Hope.

Stephen King

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

William Hurt

Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.

Alice McCall

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Benjamin Franklin

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

I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!

Graham Russell

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.http://www.bravebirds.org/plutarch.html

Plutarch, The Eating of Flesh

peace is not about the absence of conflict but it is about the presence of sincerity.

Toge Aprilianto