"When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious." – Arthur Rimbaud
"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten." – Jules Feiffer
"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child’s personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?" – Antonio Gramsci
"Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall." – Max Lerner
"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives." – Camille Paglia
"I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting." – William Shakespeare
"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent." – Dave Barry
"I think we’re seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God it’s Friday" to "Thank God it’s Monday." If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent." – Ann Diehl
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." – Leonardo DiCaprio
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." – Dave Barry
- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
- “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
- “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
- “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan
- “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan
- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain
- “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden
- “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis
- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy
- “If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die.” – Shakespeare
- “There is only one better thing than music – live music.” – Jacek Bukowski
- “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley
- “Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “I hate music, especially when it’s played.” – Jimmy Durante
- “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot
- “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
- “Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” – Martin Luther
- “Music is what I love and it’s what I feel and it’s in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it.” – Mariah Carey
- “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.” – Oscar Wilde
- “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot
- “The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, «Is there a meaning to music?» My answer would be, «Yes.» And «Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?» My answer to that would be, «No.»” – Aaron Copland
- “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero
- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides
- “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright
- “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham
- “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
- “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings
- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield
- “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison
- “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin
- “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow
- “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare
- “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields
- “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome
- “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare
- “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne
- “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly
- “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato
- “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
- “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown
- “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot
- “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly
- “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner
- “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran
- “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli
- “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman
- “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
- “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard
- “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams
- “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon
- “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh
- “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
- “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale
- “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper
- “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes