You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve. You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.
I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
Better is to bow than breake.