Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.