The most necessary, the most important, the principal, the most essential thing for a musician is this: to know what he wants, what he can do, and what he ought to do.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

"To write is to breathe life into the shadows of our imagination."

解释：要紧紧抓住时机不能错过，错过了也不能延误太久。

Confidence is key. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.