Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Music is one of the healthiest forms of transcendence and magic.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.