Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.