Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.