Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
You never know what motivates you.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
After a storm comes a calm.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.