"The only limit to human potential is the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."

"The world loves a spice of wickedness."

"Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned."

"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."

"Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell."