Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.