No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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