Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
We are what we repeatedly do.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.