James Chaney

"If you're not willing to learn, nobody can help you. If you're determined to learn, nobody can stop you."

"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."

"Technology is best when it brings people together."

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Peace begins with a smile."

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

"The bonds that unite us are stronger than those that divide us."

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything."

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"The way your employees feel is exactly the way your customers will feel."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"Humor is the best medicine."

"Change is the only constant in life."

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"We are made of star stuff."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that people can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."