“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.

I’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Patience and persistence are two characteristics that differentiate the professional from the amateur.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Every artist was first an amateur.