When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.