A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

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

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.