Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.