Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

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

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