The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.