The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.