The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

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

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

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

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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