“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“Silence is a source of great strength.”

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”