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

Some things are best mended by a break.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Success is the process itself.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.