If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

All of my bad ideas were always my best.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.

What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.