Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

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.

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

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

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