You can love your job, but your job will not love you back.

There is no either / or between being competitive and collaborative. You have to be both and decide which in each situation.

Successful women have an aura that says ‘I belong in this seat’.

Women are always angsting over things. Guys don’t do that.

If you can educate girls, you can change the world.

Abortion of potentials is a massacre of purpose. You don’t get the fruit because you killed the seeds!

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

When there is no vision, people perish.

Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.