Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.