No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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