Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

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.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

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

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.