"The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and with our aging population, it's a growing problem. It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment."

“Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.”

Source : Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”

“I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.”

“Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.”

“It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”

“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”

Source : "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 61), 1978.

“Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.”

Source : Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.155, Hachette UK

“Every musical scene has a cycle.”