A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

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

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.