To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.