Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

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

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

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.