“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
“You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.”
“I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.”
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
“I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.”
“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”