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"True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today" - George Gershwin

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It always comes as a by-product of providing a useful service" - Henry Ford

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music" - Billy Joel

"You are the music while the music lasts" - T. S. Eliot

"Good luck is where opportunity meets preparation" - Winston Churchill

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another" - Frank Zappa

"May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future" - Paul Dickson

"It's never too late to be what you could have been" - George Eliot

"What is past is prologue" - William Shakespeare

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number" - Edith Armstrong

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd" - Author Unknown

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water" - Sigmund Freud

"There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius" - Walt Whitman

"The ability to concentrate and use time well is everything" - Lee Iacocca

"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself" - Walt Whitman

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed" - Emily Dickinson

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new" - Henry David Thoreau

"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time" - Mariah Carey

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves" - Abraham Lincoln

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor" - Henry David Thoreau

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness" - Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them" - Henry David Thoreau

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge" - Henry David Thoreau

"Carpe diem (Latin: Seize the day)" - Horace

"The only wealth is life" - Henry David Thoreau

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment" - Henry David Thoreau

"Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case" - Henry David Thoreau

"You cannot kill time without injuring eternity" - Henry David Thoreau

"He who makes no mistakes makes no progress" - Teddy Roosevelt

"Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth" - Albert Einstein

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together" - Jesse Jackson

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen" - Albert Einstein

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving" - Albert Einstein

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas" - Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give" - Winston Churchill

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions" - Albert Einstein

"Adults are obsolete children" - Dr. Seuss

"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" - Confucius

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity" - George S. Patton

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home" - Confucius

"Concern for man himself and his fate must form the chief interest for all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations" - Albert Einstein

"If I would be a young man again, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or a teacher. I would choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances" - Albert Einstein

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein

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