The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

Live life as if it were created just for you.

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.