It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.