In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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