A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.