Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Life's been nothing but paperwork.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.