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

Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas.