How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
“'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.”
“If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?”