The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.