All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

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

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.