But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
One can remain alive. . . if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.
Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.