Aspiration is the best guide to living the life you deserve.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.