A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

Enjoy the music to understand it!

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels.

Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.