Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.