Challenges and opportunities. It feels good doing the impossible.

How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire?

Stamp your performance with excellence.

The view from the mountaintop is reserved for the uncommon man.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.