Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

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

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

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.