The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.

"Art is always excess. It has to be."

Use music to record life, use life to enrich music.

做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事。

The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.

The best part about being a woman is the power to bring life into the world.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.