The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.