Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.