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

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

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

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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