What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.