The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.