All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

National security begins with border security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike America if they cannot get into our country.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.