The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Success is the process itself.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

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

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