“Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.”
—Frank Sinatra

“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”
—Gene Roddenberry

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
—Plato

“I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.”
—Billy Joel

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
–—A. A. Milne