There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

To live is not enough; we must take part.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.