The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

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

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

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

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.