Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
After a storm comes a calm.
Well done is better than well said.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.