Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.