You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

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

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

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