Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.