Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Dangers by being despised grow great.