The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.