There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.
But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.
Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.