Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.