Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.