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

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.