It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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