Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
Years teach us more than books.
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.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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.
The despairing soul is a rebel.
We are always children to our mothers.
One. . . aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.
Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; andor you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind.