"If you are a parent, be a friend to your children. If you are a teacher, be a friend to your students. If you are a husband, be a friend to your wife. Friendship is the highest form of love."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to…"

"Don't be a saint, be a lover. Love is the only true religion."

"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You just have to come to it, to know it, to realize it."