Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.

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

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

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

Success is the process itself.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.