All experience is great providing you live through it.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

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

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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