I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.