When he was in his mid-eighties, the great cellist Pablo Casals kept practicing his instrument for four or five hours ea…

— Pablo Casals

When I was a boy, I felt it was both a duty and a privilege to help my widowed mother make ends meet by finding employme…

— H. A. Ironside

"I cannot see where you have made any progress since the last time I was here," a visitor to the studio of Michelangelo …

— Watter Dupiey Cavert

There is a story that Michelangelo was working on a statue one afternoon when some friends visited him. A month later th…

“If I miss a day’s practice,” a distinguished musician said, “I notice the difference in performance; if I miss two days…

— Unknown

The labors of minute insects have served to build up lofty mountains. Broad bands of solid rock, which undergird the ear…

— Unknown