I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.