If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.