Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

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

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Success is the process itself.

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

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

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