The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.