"We consider that any man who can..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.”

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

“If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.”

“I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.”

“For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”

“'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.'Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'”

“I outwit them, and then I outhit them”