It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

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

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

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

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.