A big part of being confident is being brave, and you can’t be brave unless you’re scared.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

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