Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never complain and never explain.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
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.