They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Josh Billings

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

James Baldwin

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

Lee Scott

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Sitting Bull

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.

Stephen Richards

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

George Allen, Sr.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

Dick Butkus

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs