Don't die with your music still inside.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.

What you see is evidence of what you believe.

Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.