The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only the educated are free.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.