Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

The key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional GPS that can tell you which way to go.