Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.