A talent grows by being used, and withers if it is not used.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

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

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

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

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