Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

Some things are best mended by a break.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

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

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

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

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.