The avant-garde spirit is not just a youthful sentiment — I live my life by it.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

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