Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

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

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

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

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.