The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.