“Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.”

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.