I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.