To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

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

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