Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

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

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

Success is the process itself.