The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Art is everything else.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same. My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be. We cannot unthink unless we are insane. For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.