Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.