Get up quickly — just switch on the white light of the will.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

I never practice, I always play.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.