I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.