Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.