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

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

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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

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

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

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

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