"Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic." -Anonymous

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top." -Henry Ward Beecher

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." -Abraham Moslow

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." -James McNeill Whistler

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self." -Jean-Luc Godard

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -Serenity Prayer