It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

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