That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess.

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

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

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.