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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

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

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

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

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

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