To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

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

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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

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

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

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.