The best advice I ever got when I was starting out: Never give up. And I never did.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

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

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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

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

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.