I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

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.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.