Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.