True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.