If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.