When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.