• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways – H.Jackson Brown, Jr.

• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it – Pearl S.Buck

• Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost – H.Jackson Brown, Jr.

• Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished – Susan Salzberg

• Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought – Alexander Graham Bell

• Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

• I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away – Tom Clancy

• No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather – Michael Pritchard

• The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it – Casey Stengel

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