It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

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.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

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

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.