To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.