A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.