The choice to love is the choice to connect — to find ourselves in the other.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.