You have to have confidence in your vision or else no one else will trust in it.

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

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

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

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

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.