There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.