To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.