"I set another goal ... a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step."

“Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.”

“He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.”

“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2012). “Beautiful Disaster”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

“It is better to be killed than frightened to death.”

“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”

“I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.”

“As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.”

Source : Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843). “King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden”, p.15

“It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed. ... To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves-not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music" by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.