After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

"Enough" is a feast.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

In quietness the soul expands.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.