I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.