Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.

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

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

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

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

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

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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