Once you realize that you can do something, it would be difficult to live with yourself if you didn’t do it.

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

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

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

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.