Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

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

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.