Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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

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