You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.