We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.