The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

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

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

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