You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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

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

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.