Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

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

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.