Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

The only lasting truth is change.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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