It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

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

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.