Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

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

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.