Igor Stravinsky

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.