If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.