You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.