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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.