Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.