Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks” — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I… — Hazel Ying Lee Copy Share Image
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth? — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. — John R. Platt Copy Share Image
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity. — John Silber Copy Share Image
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as… — Horace Copy Share Image
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is:… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
