The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.
Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.
Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.
The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.
Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.
I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.
Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.
The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that received through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this. . . . I urge you to continue throughout your lives to cultivate a heart in tune with the Spirit. If you do so, your lives will be enriched. You will feel a kinship with God our Eternal Father. You will taste the sweetness of joy that can be had in no other way.