When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Years teach us more than books.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Everybody knows how others should do their jobs - but they don't know how to do theirs.

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.