Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.