"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures." - Jessamyn West

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." - William Wallace

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it iches." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." - John Burroughs

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." - Jimi Hendrix

"Music can change the world because it can change people." - Bono