Patience is the absence of expectation.

Tone has the living soul.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.