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

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.