I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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