Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

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

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.