There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.
We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.
The key to change is letting go of the fear.
A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus
Be a man!. . . What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.