"In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right."

“Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.”

“It takes one person to give you a big chance.”

“True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.”

“Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!”

“Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.”

Source : Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.249, BIG BYTE BOOKS

“Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink.”

“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!”

Source : Diane Duane (2007). “Wizards at War”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.”