Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Well done is better than well said.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.