Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

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

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

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.