In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more. – Linda Ronstadt
I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking whats universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. – Laura Linney
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. – Anne Dudley Bradstreet