Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect.

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

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

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

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

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

The truth is the light and light is the truth.