Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

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

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

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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