Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

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

"Enough" is a feast.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.