We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

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

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.