If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
Source: In NY Hearald Tribune, 7 Mar 1959.
-- Maxwell Anderson, (Dec 15 1888-1959), US dramatist; His plays include Key Largo, 1939 and the Pulitzer-winning Both Your House, 1933.