Let everything you do be done in love.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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