Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

The ultimate luxury in life remains nature.

If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.