If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.