There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

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

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I never practice, I always play.