Everything I’ve ever done that’s valuable is something I was terrified to try.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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