Goethe - Art is long, life short, judgement difficult, opportunity transient

Joseph Addison-Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below

Oscar Wilde-The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life

Hans Christian Anderson- Where words fail, music speaks

William Wordsworth- The music in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more

Leonard Bernstein- Music...can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable

Robert Anthony-Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway

Lyndon Johnson-If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better

Helen Keller-No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it

Proverb- Small endeavors obtain strength by unity of action, the most powerful are broken down by discord

Robert Browning-The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

Samuel Johnson-Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Heinrich Heine-When words leave off, music begins

Herbert Spencer-Music must rank as the highest of the arts...more than any other other, it ministers to human welfare

Jean Paul Richter-Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life

Cicero- What one has, one ought to use, and whatever he does he should do with all his might. ( Lat. Quod est, eo decet uti, et quicquid agas, agrere pro viribus)

Dane Rudhyar-Individuals with holistic vision and a humanistic approach may serve as the foundation for a global society.

Thoreau-If you build your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Booker T. Washington -Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is