One must not hold one’s self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one’s creations.
—Ludwig van Beethoven (German Composer)
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
—Ernest Hemingway (American Author)
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
—Joshua L. Liebman (American Jewish Rabbi)
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
—John Weiss (American Author)
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
—Golda Meir (Israeli Head of State)
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
—Stevie Wonder (American Singer)
Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.
—Ludwig van Beethoven (German Composer)