There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

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

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.

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

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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