But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.
Work certainly does help fill a void.
One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.
There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.