"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"It is a enduring truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."

"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."

"A humble soul understands that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The art of living is discovering that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."