Success always demands a greater effort.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

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

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

"Enough" is a feast.

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