To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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.