Well done is better than well said.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
It's always too early to quit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.