Living with regrets is like driving a car that only moves in reverse.

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

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

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.