Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

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

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.