Walls turned sideways are bridges.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

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