My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.

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

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

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

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

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

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

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

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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