It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Giuseppe Verdi
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Rick Riordan
The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.
Hill Harper
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak