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

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

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

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