It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.