Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You never know what motivates you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Who seeks shall find.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.