Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.