"You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it."

“There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.”

“Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover.”

“On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.”

Source : Leopold Stokowski's statement recalled in obituaries (September 13, 1977), as quoted in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" compiled by James B. Simpson, 1988.

“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”

“The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.”

“Trouble's made us kin.”

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”