The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Giacomo Casanova

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Samuel E. Morison

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Horace

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Antisthenes

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

Chris Webber

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Cousin Woodman

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Bruce Springsteen

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Bertrand Russell

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Yoshio Taniguchi

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Samuel Johnson