Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.