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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

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

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.