I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Gertrude Stein

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Tracy Kidder

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Thomas Griffith

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

M. H. Alderson

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Christina Perri

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Jim Rohn

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Dean Inge

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

Christian Slater

The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Aristotle

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imaginationand life to everything.

Plato