With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

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.

I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.

I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.