I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

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

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

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

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

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.