The successful man is the average man, focused.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. (1.1)

C.S. Lewis

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

God helps those who fear Him.

Abu Bakr

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean Paul Sartre

Emerson said that music helps people to find the greatness in their souls. The same can be said about any form of art.

Leo Tolstoy

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Source Unknown

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Susan Orlean

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

William Shakespeare

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

Eliot Spitzer

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

Alanis Morissette