Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

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

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

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

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