"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible"

"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart"

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary"

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair"

"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants"

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"